i got a fujitsu laptop that i connect to the LAN in the office and use at home. i connect to the office from home using the secure connect miniport of the laptop and use my dialup to connect to the internet at home. at the office i get intermittent access to some shared network resources (folders, etc).

my dns has been configured to have the office DNS as primary and my service provider as secondary for use at home. i have already disjoined and then rejoined the office domain and disabled the secure miniport. when i ping the laptop, it does not give me the IP address statically assigned to it. it returns the address, 10.1.0.2. this 10.x.x.x address is not in the network at all. after rejoining the network, i got connection and access to the resources i required but why isn't my name binding to my static IP address? could this be the reason why my access to resources in the office network is intermittent? how do i correct it? help, please..