Peer to Peer with domain computers

[Guest]

We want to be able to take laptops that are joined to a domain out of the
office where they are disconnected from the domain and share files in a peer
to peer configuration. We cannot seem to make it work. It does work in the
office as they can authenticate against the domain. Is this possible?

 

[Robert L \(MS-MVP\)]

I am not sure I understand the issue, but this link may help,

workgroup networking faqsHow can I share files between workgroup computer
and domain/workgroup computer There are currently no logon servers available
to service the logon request ...
www.chicagotech.net/workgroupnet.htm


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[Chuck [MVP]]

We want to be able to take laptops that are joined to a domain out of the
office where they are disconnected from the domain and share files in a peer
to peer configuration. We cannot seem to make it work. It does work in the
office as they can authenticate against the domain. Is this possible?

Taking computer designed for domain use out of the domain presents several
challenges. If you know what the challenges are, you can probably compensate
for them.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html

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[Steven L Umbach]

I assume you want these same computers to work together with each other.
That will be problematic unless they can authenticate to each other via
local user accounts or as anonymous in which case the guest account would
need to be enabled or simple file sharing enabled and the share/ntfs
permissions include everyone. Flash drives may be an alternative solution.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Thanks your replies. Yes, we want the domain computers to work together such
as sharing files, etc when they are do not have access to the DC. We have
tried the local account approach but some work and some do not. We do not
want to enable the guest account as the laptops do connect to wireless
networks at customer locations, etc. We may have to look into some type of
NAS.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

It should work with local accounts assuming the shares had correct
share/ntfs permissions to the share. Instead of having the domain user logon
to the local account you could try mapping drives as in net use *
\\computername\share /user: specifying the user name at which point they
should be prompted for the password for the local user account on the
computer with the share. The downside with local user accounts is that
domain users could try to logon as that user account which would bypass any
user configuration Group Policy settings if that is a concern though
security policy settings for allow logon locally could be used to manage
what users can logon to the computer interactively.

Steve

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

We want to be able to take laptops that are joined to a domain out of
the office where they are disconnected from the domain and share
files in a peer to peer configuration. We cannot seem to make it
work. It does work in the office as they can authenticate against the
domain. Is this possible?

Side note - it's *possible* but it will never be *pretty*. I don't recommend
this. If you have another office, set up a WAN link via VPN to your main
office - and stick a local DC / file server in there. You really don't want
to store data on your laptops anyway, IMO.