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

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 ...

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'...

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...

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...

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