How to logon to several domains

[tookawhile]

I have a users who's notebook is configured on our domain, mydomain1 for e.g. The users is notebook at another company and their IT Dept have joined the notebook to their domain, which has wiped out mydomain1.

How can I get the logon prompt pull-down menu to display more than 1 domain and configured it.

Example:

local logon
mydomain1
anotherdomain

 

[scottew]

You would have to make a trust between the domains.

 

[tookawhile]

Ok.

What I have done is rejoin his notebook to our domain and made a note of the NETBIOS/DNS name it was in.

I had a look at 'Domains & trusts' and I'm not sure exacly how it is going to work and what config I would need.

I personally will not have access to the other network at all, so do I have to set a transitive password up and give that to the user?

How does this info get fed to the XP client?

 

[pgaliardo]

There are 3rd party products that can do what you need. Below is one that I had found. I have not used it, so I can't say how good it is.

http://www.netswitcher.com/product_info.htm

 

[tookawhile]

Is there really no easy way of doing this?

How to freelancers and contractors use their notebooks on different domains/networks then?

 

[scottew]

If I take my notebook anywhere, I am still able to log in with my domain/username account since it is cached. The only thing I would need to do is make sure the laptop is set to DHCP so I can pull an IP address for that other companies network.

Or you could always have the person log in locally.

 

[SeanAIX430]

You don't have to login to a domain directly to work on it. You just use RDP with the IP address to work on their servers, and connect to folders and provide that domain's credentials for access.

 

[schtek]

This subject was covered a while back and you are unable to join a note book to different domains by dropping down and selecting them due to domain security.... netswitcher was a prog that i found 4 years ago and it gives me the ideal way of jumping my settings around the different schools i work for at the same time keeping my own settings for my test domain at home... if you give yourself admin rights for each domain you switch to with an a log on acc you will find it allows you most anything!!

hope tis helps u

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