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yay Mar 24, 2004

yeah instead of logging into the domain (option in the logon screen), logon locally to the computer, then as iwz said: \\ip_or_name\ and it will list your shares. enjoy

deanh77 Mar 25, 2004

You're saying I can't login to the domain on the laptop and then search for the share? I have to login to the *(this computer)* option to do this? Because I think I remember I couldn't login to ...

yay Mar 25, 2004

Im assuming you want to take a notebook home to access your home network and the client shares on that network... If the laptop is setup for DOMAIN, and there is no primary domain server, there'...

deanh77 Mar 25, 2004

I can login to my laptop with the "Log on to:" value set to the DOMAIN when its not connected to anything. Authentication is not coming from a server in this case, unless by some magical phenome...

yay Mar 25, 2004

That's interesting I was lead to believe that usually for a DOMAIN, the only way to access the DOMAIN's resources would be resolved through a domain controller (since local authentication would mak...

deanh77 deanh77Founder

yeah, I'm gonna try the ip way. I wasn't aware you could access share's by ip. so that's cool.

iwz iwz

you can also configure the UNC computer name to an IP manually by using the LMHOSTS file (sits next to the HOSTS file). that will let you type in a computer name without it actually having refreshed all the windows networking names yet

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