PS... I keep forgetting to supply all the required info... I mentioned in
the above post that his machine is unable to join a domain - that is because
it is a Vista Home Premium machine - not becasue it could not actually join
our domain. I don't believe you can even join a domain until you get into
the "Business" level versions of Vista correct?
Brad
"Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ed2BkVFBIHA.324@xxxxxx
Quote:
> His machine is using the default "workgroup" and is not able to join a
> domain. We have a Win2K domain here at work - where he is connecting. I
> can understand that he wouldn't be able to see any "domain" computers when
> browsing "network" from hsi Vista machine, but he should still be able to
> supply credentials to map drives to domain computer network shares etc...
>
> Brad
>
> "John Lee Brown" <johnlbrown53notospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23H85r9EBIHA.4836@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Is his workgroup setup with the same name as your other computers.
>> "Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23H$7e2EBIHA.3548@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Me again... I incorrectly stated in teh above post that the Vista laptop
>>> network was configured as "public" when indeed it is configured as
>>> "private". I should have also mentioned that "network discovery" is
>>> turned on...
>>>
>>> Thanks, Brad
>>>
>>> "Brad Pears" <bradp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:eUtQRaEBIHA.5160@xxxxxx
>>>> We are an XP based organization for the most part and use Windwos 2000
>>>> and Windwos 2003 servers. Our sales people use their own laptops to
>>>> access our server software using terminal services and recently several
>>>> have upgraded or purchased new Vista laptops. This is no big deal as
>>>> RDP works just fine to access our terminal servers still... .
>>>>
>>>> However, one particular salesperson last week wanted to access some
>>>> documents on one of our Windows 2000 file shares from his local laptop.
>>>> He was unable to get there.
>>>>
>>>> I went over and had a peek at his machine for him and I was unable to
>>>> do so as well. This user is running Vista Home Premium. Now, I
>>>> basically know next to nothing about Vista as of yet so I suspect that
>>>> there is a way to do this, I was just unable to figure it out...
>>>>
>>>> I tried mapping a network drive to our domain file share using my
>>>> domain credentials (which is what you can do using the XP Home version
>>>> which is also not "domain" friendly) but it was unable to map the
>>>> drive. Viewing the network shows only his PC - which is kind of what I
>>>> would have expected I guess...
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone give me any ideas as to what I should try or is it just not
>>>> even possible using this version of Vista? (can't imagine that...)
>>>>
>>>> This particular machine connects to our internal LAN using a wireless
>>>> connection and can access our terminal server with no probs using RDP.
>>>> The network is set to "public" NOT private and they are obtaining a
>>>> dynamic IP address from our Win2K DHCP server no probs. I can ping any
>>>> other machine in the network with no probs either. The Vista firewall
>>>> is currently off.
>>>>
>>>> I do not know what else to look for...
>>>>
>>>> Help!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Brad
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> >
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