Leave it up to Microsoft to make the most archaic and unexplainable methods to find problems and then really convolute them with the hoops you have to jump through to fix them. This is absolutely...

Are they both running the same OS?

I almost forgot. On your desktop you've probably established yourself as an admin and you've probably done the same on your laptop but they are not the same administrator. So what you find out when...

One thing I don't know if many people realize is that when you're running a LAN without a domain controller you're not really sharing.

So for our example let's say we have a laptop and a desktop...