Two Networks; One PC?

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I have a laptop I use both at work and at home. At home I have a workgroup
with drives shared out. At work we have a large network and my laptop is
part of a domain. When I bring the laptop home it can use the home network
to get to the Internet just fine but it cannot see the workgroup or any of
the drives. If I want to move a file from the laptop to one of my home
machines I have to use email, a CD, a USB key, etc.

Is there a way to have a PC participate on two networks (a workgroup and a
domain in my case)? How would you switch between the two without having to
totally reconfigure each time?

This would seem to be a common scenario these days yet I'm not aware of a
straightforward way of doing this.

Thanks!
 
elect_son said:
I have a laptop I use both at work and at home. At home I have a
workgroup
with drives shared out. At work we have a large network and my laptop
is
part of a domain. When I bring the laptop home it can use the home
network to get to the Internet just fine but it cannot see the
workgroup or any of
the drives. If I want to move a file from the laptop to one of my
home machines I have to use email, a CD, a USB key, etc.

Is there a way to have a PC participate on two networks (a workgroup
and a
domain in my case)? How would you switch between the two without
having to totally reconfigure each time?
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Here is information from MVP Lanwench on how to use your
domain-connected laptop on your Workgroup at home:

You don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources on it.
You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all. Once
you've logged in using your domain account (using cached credentials),
and have an IP address on the home network, you can map drives, use
printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Malke
 
Just create a second network in your Laptop and name that network exact
same as your home network. You should be able to move your Laptop
between office and home, and transfer files and use the common home printer
etc....
 
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