Joining a domain

[Guest]

I would like to join a domain, but I am concerned that it will create a new
profile on my machine. My name in the domain is different than my name on the
computer; I can't change my login name on the domain, and do not want to
change my login name on the computer.

 

[Anton Pegan]

Hi Maggie,

When you join your computer to the domain and logon using your domain
account a new profile will be created. You can then just logoff and logon
using the local administrator account and copy the files from the old
profile to the new one. Here is an article describing how to do it:

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

Regards,

Anton Pegan

 

[Guest]

I would like to stress that I do not want to change my login name on the
computer; furthermore I do not want the extra profile. Is there any way for
me to access servers in the domain without having the new profile?

 

[Dave B.]

Perhaps you should be talking to your network admin.

 

[Guest]

Network admin does not know the answer, which I suspected before I even asked
him, which I did before I posted here. Most of the servers here are Netware,
which I can access (with some inconvenience) without having to install the
beastly official Novell client without having to add an extra profile to my
machine. There *has* to be a way to do this -- I mean, what if I was using
Linux or MacOs or some other non-microsoft OS? Or would I just be completely
prevented from accessing the servers in the domain?

 

[Dave B.]

AFAIK it is not possible to become a member of a domain without creating the
required new profile, it is possible to access shares on the DC without
being a member.

 

[Guest]

That's great. Can you tell me how to go about that? I'm comfortable enough
with "net use" (which is how I log on to the various netware servers), but
cannot figure out how to apply it to servers in the domain.

Thanks.

 

[Kerry Brown]

It's very similar to the way you use "net use" with a Netware server. You
will have to specify a domain username and password that has permission to
access the shares.

net use z: \\servername\share password /useromain\UserName

Try looking in Help and Support for net use or at a cmd prompt type net use
/?

 

[Anton Pegan]

Hi Maggie,

Using a domain environment has other functionalities, which cannot be
performed if you and your computer are not authenticated by the DC. If your
only problem is accessing network shares then you can just map a network
driver (My computer/Tools/Map network driver) or use the "net use" command
(as Kerry suggested).

Regards,

Anton Pegan

 

[Guest]

Thanks to both of you. The net use worked perfectly after I added the
server's ip address into ZoneAlarm's "trusted sites."
All I need from the domain is access to a couple of machines. My printing
comes via IP from a Novell print server.

 

[Kerry Brown]

You're welcome.

 

[Anton Pegan]

Glad I could help.
Regards,
Anton Pegan

Thanks to both of you. The net use worked perfectly after I added the
server's ip address into ZoneAlarm's "trusted sites."
All I need from the domain is access to a couple of machines. My printing
comes via IP from a Novell print server.