Alexvi said:
The users are in a domain environment during the day, but need to be
able to add their own home printer to XP so that they can print when
home.
They get errors saying that they don't have the proper permissions to
do this.We can't make them local admins of the laptops to solve this
and I am looking for another way.
I answered your question in the other newsgroup to which you posted.
Please don't multipost; instead, crosspost judiciously. Here is an
explanation of that:
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
For expediency's sake, here is the answer I gave you in the other
newsgroup:
From MVP Lanwench:
Note - 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>
Useful URLs:
MS KB article about the Net Use command -
http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj
Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel
http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q
http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna
If you need more help, pick one of the threads you've got and stick to
it, or add crossposting/followup to it.
Malke
