How can I log into different workgroups with different user accoun

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I have a laptop on wireless DHCP. 2 user accounts on it. I want to use one
for office network, and another one to log in to home network. All running XP
home edition on wireless. How can I specify different network names to
different user accounts?
Thanks a lot, this will save me a lot of time. currently I have to change
network name every time when I need to switch, which require a reboot.
 
Hi,

Please visit this link

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/OazSwitchNetConfig.asp

download the file and install it on your laptop. configure the configuration
for both home and office.

now when you are at these 2 different places you wil just have to select any
one of these 2 values and activate it. that will automatically configure the
network and save you trouble.
 
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Steveg said:
I have a laptop on wireless DHCP. 2 user accounts on it. I want to
use one for office network, and another one to log in to home
network. All running XP home edition on wireless. How can I specify
different network names to different user accounts?
Thanks a lot, this will save me a lot of time. currently I have to
change network name every time when I need to switch, which require a
reboot.
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I'm presuming each location has DHCP, right? I'm not quite sure what you
mean by 'change network name.'

1. If you mean you're changing your workgroup name, you really don't need to
bother (either natively or with third party software). A workgroup is just a
sort of organizational concept, rather than any sort of security feature.
You can easily access resources in Workgroup2 while your computer is part of
Workgroup1. The same is true for Windows domains, but since you're using XP
Home, your computer cannot belong to a domain, so this is not relevant. You
can map drives, access \\computername shares, etc.....you may be prompted to
provide credentials.

2. If you're talking about the wireless access point, and Windows wireless
connectivity, you might see whether your laptop mfr. has included any sort
of management software for it. IBM, Dell certainly do....you can set up
location profiles that specify the access point, and also other options such
as which printer to use as default, etc.
 
I tried to signup an account on their site but got error message, maybe I
will try it later. Thank you anyway. I will follow up it it works.
 
Thank you for your reply.

Maybe I didn't make it clear. I run the network setup wizard and named
office network as OFFICE and Homenetwork as my name. Everyday I go home, I
will use the same laptop as the one I use at work. but with different user
name. When I bring the laptop back from sleep and log on with the home
username, it recoganize the network WORKGROUP name as OFFICE. the laptop
can't communicate with the home network and vise versa.
Then I right click on my computer and properties and computer name and change.
and rename the Workgroup box to my home network workgroup name. then click
ok and it require a reboot. after the reboot, I can communicate with the home
network. Then the next morning I go to work, I do the same thing in my
office, change names and reboot. it happens to me everyday since i started to
do some work at home. It's kind of annoying. I just want to make my life
easier.

Regards,
Steve
 
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Steveg said:
Thank you for your reply.

Maybe I didn't make it clear. I run the network setup wizard
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You really never need to do that - I haven't once run that wizard for any
network I've set up.
and named
office network as OFFICE and Homenetwork as my name.
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This is just the workgroup name.
Everyday I go
home, I will use the same laptop as the one I use at work. but with
different user name. When I bring the laptop back from sleep and log
on with the home username, it recoganize the network WORKGROUP name
as OFFICE. the laptop can't communicate with the home network and
vise versa.
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Yes it can :)
Then I right click on my computer and properties and computer name
and change. and rename the Workgroup box to my home network workgroup
name. then click
ok and it require a reboot. after the reboot, I can communicate with
the home network. Then the next morning I go to work, I do the same
thing in my office, change names and reboot. it happens to me
everyday since i started to do some work at home. It's kind of
annoying. I just want to make my life easier.
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You don't need to change your workgroup name to access resources in a
workgroup. Honest. There is no security built into a workgroup. If you
browse the entire network I bet you see the other workgroup. If you are
really annoyed with this, you could name your home network OFFICE too, you
know!

You can map drives, you can share printers, etc, with computers in a
different workgroup. Make sure you can ping them by name (if you have the
Windows firewall enabled, set an exception for this, and for file/print
sharing).


net use x: \\computername\sharename will map a drive, for example.
 
I went home and try to use resources on another computer at home with office
network name, didn't work. I can't figure out why. so I had to rename my
computer workgroup just yesterday.
I will rename my home network as office too. Maybe this is the simplist
solution.

Thank you lanwench, very much. At least you guys gave me a working solution.
 
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Steveg said:
I went home and try to use resources on another computer at home with
office network name, didn't work.
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What did you try?

Can you ping the other computer?

Can you map a drive to a share on it if you provide credentials? (If you
create an identical account/password on the home computer, as you use for
the work computer, you shouldn't even need to do the latter bit)
 
Hi Lanwench

Thanks for reminding me, I noticed that it was my neglection. in the my
network places to reach another computer I need to click on "view workgroup
computers" and then "Microsoft Windows Network" to locate another network.
Then I tried "\\office computer A" and it works. I just need one more click
to reach the other computers in office, instead of rename the workgroup and
restart.

Thanks for your infomation very much.
 
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Steveg said:
Hi Lanwench

Thanks for reminding me, I noticed that it was my neglection. in the
my network places to reach another computer I need to click on "view
workgroup computers" and then "Microsoft Windows Network" to locate
another network. Then I tried "\\office computer A" and it works. I
just need one more click to reach the other computers in office,
instead of rename the workgroup and restart.

Thanks for your infomation very much.
Click to expand...

You're very welcome :)
 
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