Networking 2 XP Pro Machines

[furious5]

Can anyone help me out.

At the moment I have an XP Pro machine, and an XP Home machine which are currently networked using a peer to peer network.

I was thinking thinking of installing XP Pro on the machine that currently has XP Home on it, and was wondering if there was a better way to network the machines other than peer to peer?

 

[furious5]

In fact, scrap that first posting.

Sitting here contemplating the problem in more detail here is the real issue.

One of the machines is a laptop running XP Pro, which I use to go to work with and log in to the company domain. When I get home, I then have to take the machine out of the company domain, and change it to a workgroup and vice versa everytime I go in to the office.

Is anyone aware of a work round for this?

I initially thought it was more to do with profiles, and hence have two seperate profiles on the machine one for the local computer and one for the domain but this doesn't seem to affect the underlying domain properties.

Anyone?

 

[bcastner]

When you are joined to the Domain, your logon screen will show a scrollable Domain area. If you scroll, you will see that you have a choice of yourself as Domain user, or as local console or workstation.

This is true now when you are in the Domain.

The profile you establish under the local console is different in all respects from the profile you have as a Domain user.

So, when at home scroll to the local console and logon as a local user. Establish your profile. When you are on the Domain scroll to the Domain and logon as a member of the Domain.

The only thing that may be important are your TCP/IP settings. See if using the alternate setting feature of TCP/IP will satisfy that case:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;283676

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/russel/02march04.asp