Domain User Account and Laptop

[dougcoulter]

Hello everyone - I am running Windows XP Pro on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. At work, I connect to our domain with my domain user account, and I have my profile (stored on my laptop) setup just right. However, when I take my laptop home, I no longer have access to the domain, so I cannot use that same user account, although I would like to somehow.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks...

 

[aaronjonmartin]

Doug

Do you have internet access at home? If so you could set up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) so when you are at home you have a secure tunnel which allows you to access you domain at work as if you where there (with some speed difference). You will need to allow dial-in access on your user account on your domain and you may have to check your firewall(s) allow this or whether they need to be configured.

Aaron

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

 

[soaplover]

If you are a laptop user you should always log in with same account and domain either online or offline the corp.network .

It depends how your machine was setup when it joined the domain (it shold be setup to have a local copy of the domain user account)

//Regards Soaplover

 

[dougcoulter]

Thanks for the options. I would like to keep a local copy of the domain user account on the laptop, but not sure how to go about it. I do not recall such an option when I joined the laptop to our domain...?

 

[soaplover]

Use the wizard.
There is two choices in Open system properties.
Computer tab .
Network ID is the one to use .

You have to have domain admin rights to do this .
Also before doing it ..
copy everything you have under
C:\Documents and Settings\"your accout"
to another location on your PC .
(in windows 2000 i noticed that the folder created here
was C:\Documents and Settings\username.domain
Havent seen this in xp though ??

The local domain account is created after you login and out with your user (i think).
Just try to login afterwards without network connected
to se if it's okay.


//Regards Soaplover

 

[dougcoulter]

Thanks again for the help - what I did not realize is that I can simply keep the domain login the same, even though I am not connected (apparently XP caches the login information). I just typed my domain username and password with the domain name selected in the login dialog and it authenticated me without being connected to the domain.

 

[aaronjonmartin]

Doug,

Sorry I misunderstood your question. I thought you wanted to get access to your work domain at home. Glad the other guys understood you better and where able to suggest the resolution

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

 

[soaplover]

Or ... it has a local copy of your domain account already.

//Regards Soaplover

 

[Lockstock2SB]

Hi all,

I'm doing the same thing on a laptop. Although i can log in off the network and access my offline files ok, i am getting this error message when logging into the laptop:

Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff etc etc....

When i hit enter it simply logins in as normal. The username/password/domain credentials remain unchanged.

I am quite happy not to be able to alter my desktop/settings offline, as i only want to access my offline files at home. Does anyone know how i can subdue/disable this error message ?

Cheers

Steve

 

[pounderarthur]

Roaming profiles are different to static/local profiles ... the purpose behind the roaming profile is that you can access the information from any machine upon the domain, because your profile is held upon the server, whilst a static/local profile is built locally when you log onto the machine for the first time, having authenticated you as a user with the PDC.

Not too certain - I'll stand corrected - but the roaming profile will download to the local computer, but will not access this unless it cannot find the server within a given period of time ...

Arthur