How do I access 2 Domains from 1 PC?

[neil40]

Here's a question for Network experts, not sure if this is the correct
group to post in

I have 2 PC's in a building that has 2 separate Networks, each with
it's own Domain of course
Each Domain has it's own range, but I need these 2 PC's to be able to
access both Domains.


What's the best answer, given that I cannot make an changes to the
Domains.
Someone suggested two network cards, is this the answer?


The two PC's use Windows XP Pro SP2 accessing Windows 2000 Servers


Would be most grateful for some suggestions/URL's to look at.


Cheers
Neil

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Here's a question for Network experts, not sure if this is the
correct group to post in

I have 2 PC's in a building that has 2 separate Networks, each with
it's own Domain of course
Each Domain has it's own range, but I need these 2 PC's to be able
to access both Domains.


What's the best answer, given that I cannot make an changes to the
Domains.
Someone suggested two network cards, is this the answer?


The two PC's use Windows XP Pro SP2 accessing Windows 2000 Servers


Would be most grateful for some suggestions/URL's to look at.

A computer does not normally need to be a member of a domain in order for
the user to access domain resources. The user just must know their
username/password in order to authenticate when mapping said resources.

A computer cannot be a member of more than one domain at a time and as you
said you cannot do anything about the domains - just establishing a trust is
out of the picture.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "neil40" <[email protected]>

| Here's a question for Network experts, not sure if this is the correct
| group to post in
|
| I have 2 PC's in a building that has 2 separate Networks, each with
| it's own Domain of course
| Each Domain has it's own range, but I need these 2 PC's to be able to
| access both Domains.
|
| What's the best answer, given that I cannot make an changes to the
| Domains.
| Someone suggested two network cards, is this the answer?
|
| The two PC's use Windows XP Pro SP2 accessing Windows 2000 Servers
|
| Would be most grateful for some suggestions/URL's to look at.
|
| Cheers
| Neil

The account and password the person uses must exist in BOTH Domains.

The PC can be a Domain member of only ONE Domain. It can "attach" to numerous others. The
user can have numerous different Domain Accounts. However, each account must use the same
name and password.

 

[neil40]

Perhaps I can give some more detail and history of this problem

The site is 2 Doctors practices which originally shared the same
network and connection to the outside world.
The 2 PC's in question are used by 2 users who do work for both.

However, the network has now been completely split, so that each
practice has connection to the Internet, and we have changed the IP
address (and range) of one practice.
So one is 172.xxx.xxx.xxx
the other is 10.xxx.xxx.xxx

The need is still for the 2 PC's to access both networks, and each
room has a network point to the 2 networks.

This is my dilemna.
As per original post, someone told me that I could have 2 NIC and
configure each with a different domain/IP but I wasn't convinced.

Neil

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "neil40" <[email protected]>

| Perhaps I can give some more detail and history of this problem
|
| The site is 2 Doctors practices which originally shared the same
| network and connection to the outside world.
| The 2 PC's in question are used by 2 users who do work for both.
|
| However, the network has now been completely split, so that each
| practice has connection to the Internet, and we have changed the IP
| address (and range) of one practice.
| So one is 172.xxx.xxx.xxx
| the other is 10.xxx.xxx.xxx
|
| The need is still for the 2 PC's to access both networks, and each
| room has a network point to the 2 networks.
|
| This is my dilemna.
| As per original post, someone told me that I could have 2 NIC and
| configure each with a different domain/IP but I wasn't convinced.
|
| Neil
|

So the problem is two AD Domains, it is two networks !

You need to simplfy the network. If this is NOT associatyede with multiople AD Domains and
is a TCP/IP networking problem, this should be posted in a networking News Group.