my GF brings home a Pee Cee ahhhh

Well my GF is issued an HP NC6000 at work and now she wants to bring it home and hook it up to our wireless network. Now I was curious, when doing this will my Macs be at risk?

Also is it wise not to use a company laptop for personal use at home?? It has XP Pro and I assume it is kinda locked down.

Thanks for the comments.

your mac should be fine... and if its a company computer and shes allowed to use it... whats the harm?

well in my company i know they *sometimes* do spot checks on various laptops.

but i mean wouldn't they want to restrict what people do on a company computer? or is it like a free for all.

My company also, does stop checks. Also if they are using virual pivate networks. Then they do limit what you do.

HMMM interesting. i'll find out tonight

yup it has a VPN... what exactly does this do??

it allows you to connect to the company network from home or any where else that has an internet connection.

ahhh i get it now. thanks.

Not a bad little laptop. Save for the 802.11b connection. Hey, 'free is free'.

badmojo said:

Not a bad little laptop. Save for the 802.11b connection. Hey, 'free is free'.

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well i assume someone from her work needs to supply her with a logon ID and password to hook up to the VPN or whatever. We can't get it connected to my network. I'm not that great with XP as I've been using Macs for a while now. ideas? or does she need to wait for someone to give her the ID and password.

She will need DHCP turned on first. Which will put her on the local network. Then She will need a user id and pass word for VPN, to access her work network (which she should have already).

what about just using it so that she is not going onto the company network. Like just "home" use or is this not possible.

edit - nevermind it won't let you go into Network Connections. its locked down

that is possible you just have to set up DHCP like rman said so that it can recieve an ip address. Then you will be on the internet, and that is how you can access the company network from the house.