Domain and worgroups on samne XP Pro machine?

[Guest]

I hope someone can point me in the correct direction. I have a home network
comprised of 3 PC's running XP. They all tak to each other just peachy, and
all of them are wired to the same Linksys WG45T wireless router, sharing a
broadband cable connection. Here' s where the fun begins.

The wife buys a laptop. She uses this laptop at her place of work, where
they set it up on a domain system. So, I bought the formentioned wireless
router to include her on the workgroup network at home. It connects to the
router through the wireless just fine as for the Internet. However, I'm not
sure if I will mess up her domain setup if I try to set it up to see our
workgroup at home. I know the must be something about this somewhere simple,
I'm sure. But somehow I've played with this just about long enough to
frustrate myself. Anyone know of an article addressing this, or should I just
shell out another $150 for a print server so she can see my printers

Thanks for any help you might provide,

Ron

 

[Guest]

A machine is either part of a domain or not, it cannot be both. However, a
user can logon as a either a domain-member or as a local user whithout
actually taking the computer out of the domain. There s a drop-down on the
logon screen which allows this.

In general, you could try connecting to resources on your network with NET
USE commands, this may work if you provide a username and password on the
commandline.

Difficult to be more specific, as it would depend on how the domain and
workgroup are set-up. HST, if the laptop were my personal property I would be
extremely reluctant to allow a domain-admin to effectively take control of
the computer away from me. Domain-memebrship is all very well for machines
that are company property.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I hope someone can point me in the correct direction. I have a home network
comprised of 3 PC's running XP. They all tak to each other just peachy, and
all of them are wired to the same Linksys WG45T wireless router, sharing a
broadband cable connection. Here' s where the fun begins.

The wife buys a laptop. She uses this laptop at her place of work, where
they set it up on a domain system. So, I bought the formentioned wireless
router to include her on the workgroup network at home. It connects to the
router through the wireless just fine as for the Internet. However, I'm not
sure if I will mess up her domain setup if I try to set it up to see our
workgroup at home. I know the must be something about this somewhere simple,
I'm sure. But somehow I've played with this just about long enough to
frustrate myself. Anyone know of an article addressing this, or should I just
shell out another $150 for a print server so she can see my printers

Ron,

have a look at http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm .

Hans-Georg

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Also, you can make the domain/workgroup interaction more seamless by
changing the workgroup (probably MSHOME) to the NetBIOS name of the domain -
eg. NetBIOS name of domain.com = domain.

Also, you may get better results if you log onto the local machine on the
laptop instead of the domain. This does not involve unjoining the domain
and you can always log back onto the domain. At the login screen simply
click the arrow next to the domain name and select <computername> (this
computer). If you do not have a domain line, click the Options button.
Note you will need to use a local - not domain - account and password to
logon this way.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP