Usually you set that up yourself when installing Windows or other OS's. My router domain at home is Beave.net, but when I install Windows it defaults to workgroup and the domain/workgroup.
At work the domain is ADV-DATA.local and it is setup that way on the router. Although, I have it setup if anyone uses the DHCP to access the network they will not be able to access the domain services, this is due to the fact the Router has one DNS server and the Domain uses others to access the active directory and network itself. Looks to see if their DNS is setup manually or it is automatic and check their subnet as well. Those 2 would make it difficult to access net appliances and shares across the network. Regards, On September 19, 2013 at 2:56 PM DSinc <dsinc...@epbfi.com> wrote: > All of my Brother's LAN clients appear to be: WORKGROUP=MSHOME. Is this > an OS default? > I do know how to change this value. And, all of my Brother's clients are > set to get their network specs > automatically - the MS Default (like from his router). Fine. > > When he brings his laptop to my home once a year, he can somehow get to > the internet via my router, but he > can not get to any of my other LAN services/PC's//appliances. Odd. I > used to admin his laptop 'into' my LAN, but this > never really fixed everything. Confusing? > > Is WORKGROUP= ? a router DHCP assigned value? > I have recently turned on my router's DHCP server, and the logic seems > to work fine. > > My home LAN and all of my PC clients us WORKGROUP=WORKGROUP (probably > from back in Win2K times). > All of my PC's and appliances work just fine. > > If this makes little sense, I apologize. I just had to ask. > Duncan > Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com timli...@adv-data.com
