I am trying to set up my father's work laptop (running WinXP Pro) on my home workgroup that I run over my router. Unfortunately, his laptop is apparently permamently on the company domain. Apparently, the domains at the windows login screen are only login domains. So I went into Network ID wizard and changed him over to the workgroup, and it worked. But, when my father went into work the next morning, he said that it took him the better part of an hour to get back on the company domain. So, I am wondering if there is an easier way to switch between a workgroup and a domain. Is there a program thad takes a "Snapshot" of all your network settings and allows you to easily switch back if necessary or something?
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Switching between a Domain and a Workgroup.
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meastaugh1
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- Apr 21, 2002
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How about creating two hardware profiles, one for home and one for work? Does that sound feasible? Would that keep the appropriate profiles, separate?
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Why do you have to move the laptop to a workgroup. Workgroups are just a convenient way of grouping computers but don't provide authentication or limit/control access as a domain does. I believe he should be able to attach to you network and access resources he has permission to without attaching to your workgroup.
I also bring my laptop back-and-forth between home and work networks and it is joined to my company domain. Once before I removed it from the domain to join it to a workgroup - BAD IDEA. When I got back to work I could not access any of the company resources until I rejoined the domain which had to be done by a domain admin which took me over a day to coordinate.
Now I just plug and unplug and can access Internet, printers, etc no matter wher I am.
Mark
I also bring my laptop back-and-forth between home and work networks and it is joined to my company domain. Once before I removed it from the domain to join it to a workgroup - BAD IDEA. When I got back to work I could not access any of the company resources until I rejoined the domain which had to be done by a domain admin which took me over a day to coordinate.
Now I just plug and unplug and can access Internet, printers, etc no matter wher I am.
Mark
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Could you give some more details:
What OS are the computers at issue running
When you say "not be able to recognize" what do you mean?
Did you browse the network to find them, try and map a share directly, search for them, ...
Also, how are IP config getting assigned? DHCP?
What OS are the computers at issue running
When you say "not be able to recognize" what do you mean?
Did you browse the network to find them, try and map a share directly, search for them, ...
Also, how are IP config getting assigned? DHCP?
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