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Using a printer in a workgroup when part of a domain

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jonlake

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Sep 17, 2003
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Ok, here is the situation. We use a domain at work. When the user takes their laptop home, they have to login. When they do so, they still login to the domain, using their cached credentials. When she goes home, she cannot logon to the machine locally (we don't allow that).
Obviously we don't want her to unjoin herself from the domain and add a user to login with either as it would get tedious with 2,000+ users in the network.

She wants to print to a printer shared on her XP machine in the workgroup WORKGROUP.

The only option I can think of is maybe create a local user and logon locally to the computer. But then when she has to connect to our VPN (where she gets the documents she wants to print) she would have to switch back.
 
Have the user use the cached domain logon.
Click on Network Neighborhood, Windows Networking, Workgroup, and use the Add printer wizard to connect to the local home LAN network printer.
 
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