Joining multiple domains

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:52:38 -0700

I would love to hear this reply as I am trying to do the
same thing, with the exception we have a remote Novell
server and a LAN W2K server and want to access them both
at the same time
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a laptop that is used in several offices, each
>having its own Windows network domain (Win2000 Server,
>SBS 2003) as well as a home workgroup environment. Is
>there a way to set up Windows XP Pro to have multiple
>user accounts, each set up to connect to a different
>domain? I also want to use the same profile for all
>(desktop, my documents, settings, etc). I now have the
>latop configured to join one workgroup and one domain in
>separate user accounts however when I try to create a new
>account that joins to a different domain (while I am
>logged in to Windows in the first domain but connected to
>the network of the new domain, I get the error "cannot
>establish trust relationship with the network
>controller". Maybe there is an easier way to achieve the
>multiple domain connectivity without the multiple
>accounts, I'm open to suggestions. So the question is, is
>it possible and if so what's the procedure?
>Thanks in advance,
>RMD
>.
>

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