"Bridget060504" <Bridget060***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D17F1A75-A5B6-4212-A15E-436B8602F4B1@microsoft.com...
> Ok at home I have one desktop, a router and a laptop. The laptop and
> Desktop
> share the printer hooked to the desktop as well as some file sharing. In
> the
> past I have had to shut off firewall in setting it up.
>
> At work (on location) there is a desktop with printer and router. I
> networked a laptop so it can view and use the printer and the 2 computers
> will be sharing files.
>
> I know want to bring my original laptop (in first paragraph) to this
> location and either add it to that existing network, or create a new one,
> with either all 3 computers, or just the desktop and my laptop from home
> as
> the other laptop may or may not be here at times.
>
> I can't get it to work. My home laptop only seems to show shared files
> from
> my home. The other 2 computers at my office location that were hooked up
> previously can still see each other and use the printer, but my home
> laptop
> can't see either computer or printer and no computer can see it either.
>
> Any help???
>
> All are Dell.

> Ok at home I have one desktop, a router and a laptop. The laptop and Desktop
> share the printer hooked to the desktop as well as some file sharing. In the
> past I have had to shut off firewall in setting it up.
>
> At work (on location) there is a desktop with printer and router. I
> networked a laptop so it can view and use the printer and the 2 computers
> will be sharing files.
>
> I know want to bring my original laptop (in first paragraph) to this
> location and either add it to that existing network, or create a new one,
> with either all 3 computers, or just the desktop and my laptop from home as
> the other laptop may or may not be here at times.
>
> I can't get it to work. My home laptop only seems to show shared files from
> my home. The other 2 computers at my office location that were hooked up
> previously can still see each other and use the printer, but my home laptop
> can't see either computer or printer and no computer can see it either.
>
> Any help???
>
> All are Dell.

"Lem" wrote:

> Bridget060504 wrote:
> > Ok at home I have one desktop, a router and a laptop. The laptop and Desktop
> > share the printer hooked to the desktop as well as some file sharing. In the
> > past I have had to shut off firewall in setting it up.
> >
> > At work (on location) there is a desktop with printer and router. I
> > networked a laptop so it can view and use the printer and the 2 computers
> > will be sharing files.
> >
> > I know want to bring my original laptop (in first paragraph) to this
> > location and either add it to that existing network, or create a new one,
> > with either all 3 computers, or just the desktop and my laptop from home as
> > the other laptop may or may not be here at times.
> >
> > I can't get it to work. My home laptop only seems to show shared files from
> > my home. The other 2 computers at my office location that were hooked up
> > previously can still see each other and use the printer, but my home laptop
> > can't see either computer or printer and no computer can see it either.
> >
> > Any help???
> >
> > All are Dell.
>
> There are really too many possibilities to start guessing, but as a
> start, post the results of ipconfig /all on the laptop both at home and
> at the job site.  How did you set up the job site network? The brands of
> the computers are not as important as what operating system they have
> (all of them).
>
> How to get text from ipconfig /all into a newsgroup post:
> http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com/ipconfig-all-how-to-get-text-output/
> --
> Lem -- MS-MVP
>
> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
>