Work gifted me with a laptop (more likely shackled me with it so I really can work 18 hours a day) that has wifi built in. The machine is setup to login in the local machine and also to login into our domain at work but since I have wifi setup here I'd like to be able to login into my home network. I KNOW how to do this but I guess there's too much swirling in my head right now. I can see the network connection and access the Net through that connection but I cannot access any of the network resources.

you got permission setup on the home machine?

Well I have a similar case with my work laptop. I'm not allowed to change the Domain to the home Workgroup (okay, I'm allowed to do that, I'm only not allowed to set it back, duh!). I think being in the work domain, even when on my home network is what does not allow me to view home shared resources.
My trick was to use Win2000 built-in search to search for computers, I searched for a computer with shared resources on my home network, and voilá, I could do everything I had set the permissions on the sharing computer.
Browsing the network does not really work, nothing really shows up in the Workgroup, even though the computers are there.

This might be because of the firewall my work lptop has installed, but I can't turn it off to check. So you might give all this a whirl.

Being part of a domain, you cannot disjoin it from the domain unless you're a Domain Admin, however, you can log in locally and access the home computers if you enable their guest accounts.

Well Ace I know that you're a pro, but I have to disagree, I was able to disjoin a domain, I was only unable to join it again.
I did not try to login to the home computer though, just browsed the shared resources.

yes, a non domain admin can indeed dis-join a domain, but cannot rejoin.... so it is pretty dumb to do that in the first place if you need to ever get back on that domain.

that and you know the domain admins are gonna be ticked off at you.