My dad has set up a music database on his xp desktop comupter and all
of the other computers in the house can connect to it (all running
xp). My Vista laptop can't because I'm on my school domain (not the
local network). If I change the workgroup I lose my username (allready
tried it once). Is their any way to access the share without changing
the workgroup? The IT guy at my school says I should be able to
connect using the ip address, but I have no idea how to get the window
to type it into.

On May 2, 8:20*pm, wrote:
My dad has set up a music database on his xp desktop comupter and all
of the other computers in the house can connect to it (all running
xp). My Vista laptop can't because I'm on my school domain (not the
local network). If I change the workgroup I lose my username (allready
tried it once). Is their any way to access the share without changing
the workgroup? The IT guy at my school says I should be able to
connect using the ip address, but I have no idea how to get the window
to type it into.

also I connected to the printer on the network earlier this year (when
I was also running vista) using the ip address and it worked fine.

On Fri, 2 May 2008 20:20:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

My dad has set up a music database on his xp desktop comupter and all
of the other computers in the house can connect to it (all running
xp). My Vista laptop can't because I'm on my school domain (not the
local network). If I change the workgroup I lose my username (allready
tried it once). Is their any way to access the share without changing
the workgroup? The IT guy at my school says I should be able to
connect using the ip address, but I have no idea how to get the window
to type it into.

Hoping that the school guys haven't disabled the "Run" window by policy, hit the
"Vista" button (aka the "Start" button in Windows XP), then select "Run". Enter
the IP address there, as "\\IPAddress" (less the ""). That should give you a
display of the shared data on the XP computer at home, assuming that your Dad
left it open to access.
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005...ll-travel.html

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/

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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


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On May 2, 8:20 pm, wrote:
My dad has set up a music database on his xp desktop comupter and all
of the other computers in the house can connect to it (all running
xp). My Vista laptop can't because I'm on my school domain (not the
local network). If I change the workgroup I lose my username (allready
tried it once). Is their any way to access the share without changing
the workgroup? The IT guy at my school says I should be able to
connect using the ip address, but I have no idea how to get the window
to type it into.

also I connected to the printer on the network earlier this year (when
I was also running vista) using the ip address and it worked fine.