You may have trouble navigating via "Network Neighborhood" if machines in
separate workgroups are on the same local subnet.  But when you want to
maount a share, you can specify its host by IP address rather than by name.
As long as you always use the same address for the laptop, that shouldn't be
too awkward.

David Gillett


On 28 Nov 2003 at 22:00, Michael A. Wosnick wrote:

> Is there some easy way to share files over an Ethernet hub if the two
> connected computers are not part of the same workgroup or domain?
>
> I often bring my laptop home from work and want to do some file transfers,
> but my home PC and my work laptop are configured such that my home PC is
> part of a home network and has a workgroup name that does not match my
> laptop (which is part of a domain at work).
>
> It is too much effort to go through changing domains or workgroup names etc
> each time I want to do a file transfer.
>
> Can I do it some other way? I have an Ethernet hub and two separate IP
> addresses from my ISP. Both the laptop and my PC are running XP pro.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael
>
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