Re: Have Laptop, will travel (multiple domains question)

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From: Laura E. Hunter \(MVP\) (hunter(nospamplease)_at_sfs.upenn.edu)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:51:01 -0400

If you don't mind dropping a nominal (<$50US retail) fee on a third-party
add-on, I set up all of my multi-domain travellers with Multi-Network
Managers (www.globesoft.com). Not only allows then to set up different IP
addresses/gateway/subnet info, it also lets you specify different domains,
network shares, printers, etc. Very useful, and even end-user intuitive if
you need it to be. 

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Laura E. Hunter - MCSE, MCT, MVP
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"clamfuddle" <vader1 at flash.net> wrote in message 
news:%23tEgJOSKEHA.4052@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I have a laptop that I travel with, and need a way to join
> several domains - one at home, one at my daily work, and
> one at each of our offices that I support.
>
> Each site has a different domain controller (although some of
> the sites don't have a domain controller at all, but are
> just workgroup sites), and different domain names.   We're
> too small a company to have a WAN.
>
> Any suggestions on how to set up a laptop to be most efficient
> in an environment like this?  My laptop is running Windows XP
> professional, and I have to connect to domains being controlled
> by windows NT 4.0, windows 2000 server and windows 2003
> server.
>
> I'd like to keep my user settings and such the same as I connect
> between each of these domains.
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> Bryan
>
>

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