Workgroup / Domain Issue

[Tony]

Is there any safe way to connect a work laptop that's a
member of a domain to a home network workgroup without
destroying the domain configuration?

Thanks.

 

[Ron Lowe]

Is there any safe way to connect a work laptop that's a
member of a domain to a home network workgroup without
destroying the domain configuration?

Thanks.

Sure.
I do this all the time.

Just leave it as a member of the domain,
and log in using your domain username/password.

This will work due to cached credentials.

The laptop should either get an IP address from your home router
or ICS machine, or you need to manually set an IP address on it
which is compatable with your home LAN.

Use the command "ipconfig /all" to verify this is OK.

Then, map a drive to your home PC and select
the option to "connect using a different user name".

Enter a username in the form:
home-pc-name\username
along with the associated password.

"Username" is a user account that's valid on the home machine.

Now, the laptop will have cached the credentials for the
home machine, and you can do all the normal network things.

 

[GTS]

Yes. Leave the domain setting as is. Run \\workgroupname to access shares
on the workgroup.

See the 'EasyMap' batch file on my 'Tech Tips and Downloads' page if you
want a quick way map shares
http:// [Remove this and spaces] www. gtscomputerservice. com

 

[Tony]

Thanks, Ron.

The ipconfig is verifying all the addresses as I believe
they should be. However, I'm not able to map a drive.
I'm, also, not able to ping the desktop, at all.

I'm assuming there may be a firewall issue here. There
are acutally three that are involved: 1) At the router.
2) XP's firewall at the network connection. 3) Macafee's
Personal Firewall is also running on the desktop.

I tried making sure that all allowed for ICMP pings, but
still was never able to ping. I also attempted to punch
holes where I thought holdups could be. Nothing I've
tried has worked, thus far.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tony

 

[Ron Lowe]

Thanks, Ron.

The ipconfig is verifying all the addresses as I believe
they should be. However, I'm not able to map a drive.
I'm, also, not able to ping the desktop, at all.

I'm assuming there may be a firewall issue here. There
are acutally three that are involved: 1) At the router.
2) XP's firewall at the network connection. 3) Macafee's
Personal Firewall is also running on the desktop.

I tried making sure that all allowed for ICMP pings, but
still was never able to ping. I also attempted to punch
holes where I thought holdups could be. Nothing I've
tried has worked, thus far.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Tony

Sounds like a possible firewall issue.

If the machines are behind a NAT router,
then drop the firwall to test.