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Windows Server Forum / Small Business Server / SBS 2000 / July 2004Home network access to SBS 2000 network
One client wants to use his laptop from both home and work. Home network is simple peer to peer WinXP (home & pro). Of course work is SBS 2000. The SBS Client can connect to home lan for internet access, but cannot use the shared printer, since not a member of the workgroup used at the home. What is the best solution? Or what are options I might investigate? Here is what I am considering: * Setup VPN so users at the home can access the SBS network. * Maybe make all users (3) at the home to become SBS. Then they would still function as peer to peer effectively, since there is no permanent connection to the server. Will SBS complain? * This solves the printing problem. (Of course this requires upgrading the one XP Home to XP Pro at the home.) * Also, possibly setup roaming profiles so the user can optionally use a desktop computer from the home to connect to SBS resources at the office. Is this a stretch or easily doable? Thanks, David Hi David, Why not let the home user change his/her workgroup to the same name as your sbs domain?  SignatureRegards, Marina Microsoft SBS-MVP > One client wants to use his laptop from both home and work. Home network > is simple peer to peer WinXP (home & pro). Of course work is SBS 2000. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Is this a stretch or easily doable? Thanks, > David Hi Marina, Is it that easy? I searched and asked for the laptop solution a while ago. Did not find this or ANY easy answer. So by simply changing the workgroup name to match the SBS domain name, the SBS client can access shared resources on the workgroup, which includes printers and files. Do I understand correctly? Thanks in advance, David > Hi David, > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Is this a stretch or easily doable? Thanks, > > David Hi David, Yes, it is that easy. If those other home machines are w2k/xp you will have to make sure that all useraccounts exist on all computers. SignatureRegards, Marina Microsoft SBS-MVP > Hi Marina, > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > > Is this a stretch or easily doable? Thanks, > > > David Hmm, doesn't seem to work. Home pc uses Win XP Home; notebook uses Win XP Pro; Linksys router with switch (internet access firewall). Set workgroup to PLS, same as the domain name for the notebook. Created a new user account for the workgroup, admin type, same name & password as the notebook has. (of course the GUID is different between the workgroup user and the domain user.) Setup file and printer sharing on home pc. Notebook\My Network Places\Entire network\MS Win net.\PLS => The home pc does not show on the list, even after a long wait. Is the problem possibly XP Home, needs to be Pro? When I shared the home computer, I used a different account. Possibly I needed to use the same account name as in the domain. But again, the GUID is different. Is that acceptable? Thanks again, David > Hi David, > > Yes, it is that easy. If those other home machines are w2k/xp you will have > to make sure that all useraccounts exist on all computers. Hi David, Make sure that File and printersharing is installed on the home machines, that netbios over tcp/ip is enabled and that the XP firewall is turned off. SignatureRegards, Marina Microsoft SBS-MVP > Hmm, doesn't seem to work. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > have > > to make sure that all useraccounts exist on all computers. I can't believe it. File & print sharing was turned *off*. Small wonder it was invisible on the net! Never should have used the wizard! Didn't need netbios over tcp/ip. Apparently the dhcp server is issuing it just fine. Also, Norton Internet Security is a love/hate issue. It works well, but is all too easy to overlook. Needed to configure the firewall to let traffic through for local addresses. Thanks so much. Now it WORKS! David > Hi David, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > have > > > to make sure that all useraccounts exist on all computers. Hi David, Great. Thanks for reporting back. SignatureRegards, Marina Microsoft SBS-MVP > I can't believe it. File & print sharing was turned *off*. Small wonder > it was invisible on the net! Never should have used the wizard! [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > > have > > > > to make sure that all useraccounts exist on all computers. Does he have any kids?!?! If so, they probably have Kazaa and other crap on his home LAN so he wants to corrput your clean office LAN with the crap his kids have on there.....$10 says there's a trojan. I'd be wary. SignatureSincerely, Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000 www.MCSE2000.com www.AppLauncher.com > One client wants to use his laptop from both home and work. Home network > is simple peer to peer WinXP (home & pro). Of course work is SBS 2000. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Is this a stretch or easily doable? Thanks, > David Good concern Mark, Don't you think NIS 2004 is adequate protection with auto-update weekly? But of course you are right. Kids go *everywhere* on the net, turning up things office folks mostly avoid. This case not so bad, just one college girl. David > Does he have any kids?!?! If so, they probably have Kazaa and other crap on > his home LAN so he wants to corrput your clean office LAN with the crap his [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Is this a stretch or easily doable? Thanks, > > David |
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