Member of 2 domains

[Guest]

I have a customer that is part of a corporate system and his XP Pro SP2
laptop is part of the corporate domain. But as an independent agent, he
maintains a lot of information of his own and has just asked me to install
SBS to help him manage his SOHO scheduling and communications issues. He has
4 employees that work out of his home office and he works about 80% of the
time from that office, connected to the corporate network via VPN, about 20%
of the time disconnected, visiting his customers; if he's ever locally
connected to the corporate network, it's a very small percentage of the time.

Can I join his laptop to the SBS domain without trashing his corporate
settings? Or is there another way for him to connect to the SBS CompanyWeb?
Can someone point me to the place where I can read how to do that?

TIA,
Gerry

 

[Steven L Umbach]

A Windows XP computer can only be a member of one domain at a time and you
would have to remove his computer from the current domain and then join it
to the new domain and yes that would change quite a bit and create a new
user profile for him. However a user can access domain resources if he has a
user account in that domain and knows the logon/password assuming that ipsec
is not used to protect access to a domain computer which would not be the
case by default. If the user account has the same logon/password as his user
account the other domain he may get fairly seamless access to domain shares
though if prompted for credentials he may need to specify domainSBS\username
as the user name rather than just user name. --- Steve