Profile & Domains

[biaya]

Hi
One of our domain users has a laptop, and at home he has a workgroup called HOME. He wants to be able to log into the HOME workgroup but get the profile for our work domain.
Is this possible?
Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Mithrandir01]

So he is not logging into your domain at all from home? If he is not on your domain I don't think you can dynamically transfer profiles. It's kind of clunky, but if what he wants is his preferences, Favorites, etc, he can copy them from C:\My Documents and Settings\username and either put them on a disk or perhaps e-mail them to his home e-mail. He can then copy those settings into his home C:\My Documents and Settings\username and allow it to overwrite the existing Favorites, etc. Of course if he makes more Favorites at either end he'll have to do that again to keep both computers up to date. If anyone has a better/more efficent suggestion I'm all ears.

Anthony

 

[wolluf]

If he leaves machine connected in domain and logs in using domain user, it should log him in using cached information. He should still be able to access resources on his HOME workgroup (assuming IP addresses consistent).

 

[biaya]

Thanks for these bits of info. What he wants is to use his profile at home so that he can send/receive e-mails without logging on to the work domain.
Is that possible? Thanks again.

 

[wolluf]

He CAN log on to work domain at home (although physically disconnected) - the system will use cached details to verify his user credentials & let him use the local copy of his domain profile - with all its settings intact (which might cause a problem if his internect connection at home is different to that at work).

Or he can log on locally at home (he'll need a local user id/password to do this). He could copy his domain profile to this this local user, so again his settings would be available. But again, unless he's using same internet connection as as work, there may be a problem with sending/receiving emails in this configuration.

 

[biaya]

Okay, I am a bit confused, but I'm going to try to get this right:-
My user can go home with his laptop and log on to his HOME domain but use his WORK domain profile and thus be able to send/receive e-mails.

Is that right? If so, how would I point him to set it up?
Thanks a lot.

 

[wolluf]

Sorry - perhaps I'm confusing you.

He can log on to his work domain at home using cached details. His access to his HOME workgroup will depend on the way networking is set up at home and at work. You can't belong to a domain and a workgroup at the same time, but when logged on one you can access resources from the other if on the same physical network and settings are ok (eg, if both home and work networks are suing a DHCP server for IP addresses, and he is set to pick up IP address automatically, he should be able to see his home network (he may have to use the Find/Search for computer command initially at least to find other machines in home network). If he's only interested in internet/email connection, depends what this is - you haven't said (eg, I'm presuming its not just a dial-up from the laptop).

If he actually wants to become a member of his HOME workgroup, he will have to change networks settings to leave the domain & join the workgroup (must have viable local user id to do this). He will have to do the reverse back at work (which will need a domain users with right level of access to perform rejoining domain). In this case, he should have full access to his HOME workgroup (and as i said, he can copy his domain user profile to his local user profile for the settings).

BUT - you mentioned email and haven't said how he accesses email at work and at home (eg, often use exchange server with Outlook at work, may use ISP with Outlook Express at home).

So, hope this is not more confusing - please give more details of his requirements if you need to.

 

[biaya]

Thanks. Yes he uses Exchange Server at work and Outlook Express at home. We have ISDN lease line at work, and he has ADSL line at home. Does that help?

 

[wolluf]

So he doesn't need his work settings at home - they would in fact confuse matters. He needs a local user/profile on the machine to use at home. He will still have access to the domain profile (and can for example copy his favorites over so they're available from). Might want to transfer address book from outlook to outlook express.

If his access to the ADSL line is via ICS or a router on his home network, then he will need to have his IP settings correct to use it (in both cases to pick up address automatically is the norm). Unless he really needs to he's better off not joining his home workgroup, but just logging on as local user at home (so he will need access to appropriate local user id, best with local administrator privileges). Think he needs to try it out and see how he gets on.

 

[biaya]

He would like his work settings at HOME so that he can send and receive e-mails.

 

[wolluf]

Well all I can say is if I took my work settings home I would be unable to use them (using Outlook set up for Exchange server on work (domain) network, with work email address. Home I use cable modem/ISP, Outlook Express with personal email address). And his sound similar. Can he remotely log in to your work domain from home using his ADSL line - so he has access to the exchange server? Am I missing something here?