Re: Network - workgroups and domains

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: 10 Apr 2004 15:12:16 -0500

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:45:37 +0100, Laurence Payne
<l@laurenceDELETEpayne.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:49:27 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
><lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>You can't natively belong to a domain and a workgroup at the same time, nor
>>to more than one domain at a time, nor to more than one workgroup at a time.
>>You can use your laptop with the domain membership to access resources on a
>>home workgroup, though, without changing any settings....a lot of people do
>>this. Log in with the domain cached credentials, and map a drive to a share
>>on one of the workgroup computers specifying the appropriate credentials for
>>the share....
>>
>>net use \\computername\sharename /user:computername\localcomputeraccount
>><enter>
>>
>>Once that's cached, you can also use a printer attached to that computer,
>>etc etc etc..
>>
>>This presumes you have basic IP connectivity ...nice to have DHCP in both
>>locations.
>
>Thank you.
>Presumably at work the domain will be administered by one particular
>computer? The guy who set it all up left no documentation, but he
>DID leave a list of passwords. So, if I knew what to look for, I
>would hopefully be able to make settings permitting this new machine
>onto the domain? What AM I looking for?

Laurence,

To join your laptop to the domain at work, you will need the domain
administrative account and password. You will need to connect the laptop to the
network there, then login as a local administrator to the laptop, and from the
System wizard (System - Computer Name - Change) use the domain administrator
account and password to add the laptop to the domain.

The laptop is running XP Pro, right?

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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