I have a laptop running WinXP. This laptop is my work computer and it is
part of a domain at the office. When I bring the laptop home, I often want
to share files with my desktop computer at home which is part of a home
network and it has a (different) Workgroup ID. How can I get these two
'puters to talk to one another?

I have tried to change the name of my desktop workgroup name to be the same
as my laptop's domain name, but they do not see each other (one is still a
domain the other still a workgroup). I can't add my desktop to my workplace
domain since it is not part of that and there is no way to authenticate. If
I change my laptop settings so that I remove myself from the domain and add
myself to the same workgroup as my desktop, then when I get back to my
office, I can no longer log into the workplace domain (not a good thing...).

I would have thought that there was some easy way to log in as one user and
log into the domain (at work) or take the laptop home and log in as another
user and be part of a different workgroup, but if there is, it isn't obvious
to me how to do it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Michael

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