Introducing a XP laptop setup for work in my home workgroup

[Guest]

Hello All,
I am pretty sure this can't be done but let me pose the question. At
home I have a workgroup setup which all my home machines belong to. All
machines can see each other no problem, and I have a printer slaved off of
one for Network printing works great. All machines by the way are connected
by a linksys wireless switch.
Now comes the issue, I have an XP pro laptop from work that logs into
MY 2003 AD domain @ work. Using either my Wireless Nic or hardwiring the
10/100 card to the switch I can gain access to internet browsing on my home
Network but that is it.
I want to be able to print to that slaved printer and share files with other
machines in the network.
Now I understand in my current state this can't be done, however I was
thinking could I take either my LAN connection or WLAN connection and make a
duplicate that can be configured for my workgroup at home? Then depending on
my location I can enable Lan1/WLan1 connector for the office or Lan2/Wlan2
connector at home, and then disable then one I am not using?
As I have stated I don't believe this can be done, has any one tried
this can anyone think of a solution that would work (Short of buying a
linksys print server which only solves one of the problems)?
I look forward to your responses
Tom

 

[Chuck]

Hello All,
I am pretty sure this can't be done but let me pose the question. At
home I have a workgroup setup which all my home machines belong to. All
machines can see each other no problem, and I have a printer slaved off of
one for Network printing works great. All machines by the way are connected
by a linksys wireless switch.
Now comes the issue, I have an XP pro laptop from work that logs into
MY 2003 AD domain @ work. Using either my Wireless Nic or hardwiring the
10/100 card to the switch I can gain access to internet browsing on my home
Network but that is it.
I want to be able to print to that slaved printer and share files with other
machines in the network.
Now I understand in my current state this can't be done, however I was
thinking could I take either my LAN connection or WLAN connection and make a
duplicate that can be configured for my workgroup at home? Then depending on
my location I can enable Lan1/WLan1 connector for the office or Lan2/Wlan2
connector at home, and then disable then one I am not using?
As I have stated I don't believe this can be done, has any one tried
this can anyone think of a solution that would work (Short of buying a
linksys print server which only solves one of the problems)?
I look forward to your responses
Tom

Tom,

I have worked with many folks who move a laptop from a domain environment (at
work) to a workgroup at home. I'm not sure what your problem would be.

If your laptop is connecting to your home network, and getting internet access,
you've got half the work done.

Have you looked for the other computers in your workgroup, from the laptop?
What do you see in Network Neighborhood (My Network Places)?

Can you setup a local userid on the laptop, to use for workgroup authentication?

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Chuck]

Yes you are correct this will work, however That would require me to have to
add my self to the domain each time it hit my office network, I don't believe
it is as simple as just adding another profile, is it? In short I want to log
into my office and @ home with out having to change anything after the
initial setup. If having a Domain network profile and a local work group
would accomplish this I could try this, I think it is a one or the other
proposition though.
Tom

Tom,

Adding a local account, and joining a workgroup, are two separate items.

You should be able to remain a member of the domain, yet have a local userid on
the laptop. Try it once and see.

After you add a local userid, when you login, you'll have a pulldown list for
domain. One selection will be your AD domain, the other will be the name of the
laptop. With your domain selected, you can login with your domain userid. With
the laptop name selected, you can login locally to the laptop. You can do all
of that without changing laptop membership from the domain.

Just don't change laptop membership to the workgroup. Leave it joined to the
domain.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.