Re: Change Workgroup Utility?

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AK wrote:

Anybody know of a utility that will allow me to join/change workgroups
"on the fly" without having to type in the name of the new workgoup
and then going thru the agonizing reboot to get xp to join me to the
workgroup??

I travel to customers office's all the time and have to join their
workgroup(s). What a pain having to type in the new workgroup many and
then reboot. I am looking for something will allow me to set up
workgroup profiles and just select the appropriate one from a list
whereupon the system recognizes and joins the new group - without
reboot.

Maybe a non-reboot is not possible, but even if the utility only
remembered all the different workgroups with their profile names that
would save me some time ...

You do not need to change to the customer's Workgroup. Machines running
Windows operating systems do not need to be in the same group to share
files/resources. You will be able to share files/resources on other
Windows machines in any Workgroup if 1) Guest is enabled on the target
machine; or 2) you have a user account and matching password on the
target machine.

If you really mean a domain - and this would require a domain
administrator to join your machine to the domain which is a little more
complicated than simply changing the Workgroup name - please post back
with more details.

Malke
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