Domain vs Workgroup

[Guest]

I have a laptop (Win XP) I use at work and a wireless
network at home. There is a desktop (Win 98) with
attached printers, scanner, etc. hooked to the wireless
router at home. I want to be able to acess the desktop
(and assoiociated peripherals) from my laptop across the
wireless server. But I can't find a way to be in a
workgroup at home without taking myslef aout of the domain
at work. Is there any way to allow me to have the same
machine in a home workgroup wihtout taking myself out of
my work domain? Seems like there ought to be, but this
has stumped everyoen I've talked to about it so far.

 

[Dwaine]

Have you tried changing the workgroup name to match the
Domain name?

dp

 

[Phil]

Nope. That's a big problem for our users also.

Shat you need to do is setup a local account on your
laptop and when you are at home, logon locally. Make the
workgroup name at home the same as the name of your work
domain and then all the PC's will be in the same network
browse list. The user profiles will be different though.

Workgroups are not exactly useful, except that they
provide a quick and easy way to browse for machines with
the same name workgroup as themselves.

It's a problem that MS should sort out.

There are advanced ways of disabling the network adapter
by using a hardware profile, but that will only have the
effect of disabling the Domain logon. You will still need
a local account. With regards the profile problem, you
can mess around with the registry and get both users to
map to the same profile. Do you want this hassle ?

 

[MS News groups]

couple question, is the laptop wireless at work? Does the laptop use a
wireless card or is it internal? Does the laptop more then one slot to put a
card? Answer these three question and I can give you a easy way to have your
cake and eat it too.