Joining WorkGroup Without Losing Domain?

[(PeteCresswell)]

Got a laptop, courtesy of one of my clients.

It's imaged w/XP and set up to connect to the corporate domain:
"corp.whatever.com".

I've got it at home. Just installed a WiFi card.

No problem RemoteDesktopping from the laptop to my home PC via
WiFi.

But I'd like to map a couple of the PC's drives on the laptop.

Seems like I have to open up the "System" control panel, click
the "Change" button on the ComputerName tab, and join my home
workgroup ("303").

But I'm guessing that will hose my "corp.whatever.com" domain
association.

True?

If so, is there any way around this without having to flip-flop
back and forth every time I move the PC from work to home?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Got a laptop, courtesy of one of my clients.

It's imaged w/XP and set up to connect to the corporate domain:
"corp.whatever.com".

I've got it at home. Just installed a WiFi card.

No problem RemoteDesktopping from the laptop to my home PC via
WiFi.

But I'd like to map a couple of the PC's drives on the laptop.

Seems like I have to open up the "System" control panel, click
the "Change" button on the ComputerName tab, and join my home
workgroup ("303").

But I'm guessing that will hose my "corp.whatever.com" domain
association.

True?

If so, is there any way around this without having to flip-flop
back and forth every time I move the PC from work to home?

You can map any share, provided that you supply a valid
user name and password. However, the shares won't be
visible in Explorer. You can map them explicitly by name,
e.g. \\MyDesktop\SomeShare, or by a logon script, e.g.
net use Q: \\MyDesktop\SomeShare /usereter.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Pegasus (MVP):

You can map any share, provided that you supply a valid
user name and password. However, the shares won't be
visible in Explorer. You can map them explicitly by name,
e.g. \\MyDesktop\SomeShare, or by a logon script, e.g.
net use Q: \\MyDesktop\SomeShare /usereter.

I'm getting close with Net Use.

Actually got connected once, but cannot replicate it.

It keeps prompting me for a userid and pw. I supply the ID I
use to log on to that machine and the password, but it keeps
throwing "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password."

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Per Pegasus (MVP):

I'm getting close with Net Use.

Actually got connected once, but cannot replicate it.

It keeps prompting me for a userid and pw. I supply the ID I
use to log on to that machine and the password, but it keeps
throwing "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password."

You may have to disable "Simple File Sharing" on the machine
where the share resides.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307874#3

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Pegasus (MVP):

You may have to disable "Simple File Sharing" on the machine
where the share resides.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307874#3

Connections from the laptop to the workstation seem tb working
ok.

But the laptop is still throwing the same "Logon failure: unknown
user name or bad password."

Normally, I'd lay it to RCI on my part.... but I've typed the
laptop UserName and PW so many times now that I'd think at least
one of them would have been correct...

I'm starting to wonder about what a "User Name" really is in the
context of Net Use's prompts. Maybe it's something different
from what I use when I start Windows XP on the laptop.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Per Pegasus (MVP):

Connections from the laptop to the workstation seem tb working
ok.

But the laptop is still throwing the same "Logon failure: unknown
user name or bad password."

Normally, I'd lay it to RCI on my part.... but I've typed the
laptop UserName and PW so many times now that I'd think at least
one of them would have been correct...

I'm starting to wonder about what a "User Name" really is in the
context of Net Use's prompts. Maybe it's something different
from what I use when I start Windows XP on the laptop.

- Do you experience this problem when in Workgroup mode?
- While in Domain mode, you use a certain account name / password
when challenged. Do you use the same credentials when
logging on in Workgroup mode?

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Pegasus (MVP):

- Do you experience this problem when in Workgroup mode?
- While in Domain mode, you use a certain account name / password
when challenged. Do you use the same credentials when
logging on in Workgroup mode?

My OP was around Domain vs WorkGroup modes.

That's part of my problem: I don't really know what mode the
laptop is in. Control Panel | System | ComputerName shows a
"Domain: corp.whatever.com". Yet from that PC I am able to
connect successfully with my desktop PC which is a member of the
"303" workgroup and has never been associated with a domain.

OTOH, connecting from the desktop PC to the laptop is where I'm
getting challenged - and refused when I enter the laptop's
UserName/Password.

Also, there's a place in FolderName | Properties | Sharing |
Permissions where it looks like one can add users/groups to the
permission list, but the resulting dialog asks for "objects" -
with a choice of "Object Types". But even when I select
ObjectTypes=Users and try to search on the UserName that is
logged on the laptop, it says "An object named xxx cannot be
found..." So I'm *really* lost now...

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Pegasus (MVP):

- While in Domain mode, you use a certain account name / password
when challenged. Do you use the same credentials when
logging on in Workgroup mode?

Here's what I'm seeing from the desktop PC (which belongs to a
workgroup) when I try to connect to the laptop (which is on the
same Ethernet LAN, but is not connected to it's domain):
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C:\>net use L: \\pcresswell01\dat
The password or user name is invalid for \\pcresswell01\dat.

Enter the user name for 'pcresswell01': pcresswell
Enter the password for pcresswell01:
System error 1326 has occurred.

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.