XP Pro Internet sharing and domains

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DanaK

I have a small network I was planning to setup as a
workgroup with one XP Pro PC serving as the Internet
sharing host and the rest connecting to it to access the
Internet via wireless DSL. This was all going well until
I was asked to attach two of the workgroup's other PCs
also to a nearby LAN with a domain via wireless NICs.

Is it possible to set up a different profile for each
type of access? Can it be set up so one profile accesses
the Internet via the workgroup and another profile
accesses the domain without the two network settings
interfereing with each other? This will mean the two PCs
accessing the domain will have two NICs.

It's nuts, believe me, I know but politics usually make a
mess of everyone's best plans.

Thanks.
 
No. A computer is either joined to a domain or a workgroup; it cannot
simultaneously be joined to both. You could try changing the workgroup name
to the NetBIOS name of the domain and creating local machine user accounts
which match domain user names and passwords.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
Just attach to the LAN or join the domain?
If the latter, talk to domain admin. If the former, reconfigure the
workgroup as the separate from domain IP segment kinda 192.168.254.0 and
implement static IP addressing for these two computers. You'll figure the
rest of setup.
 
Thanks for your answers. This is pretty much what I
figured. The only thing I could also come up with is
possibly dual booting with two installations of XP.
Something else I've never done but always wondered about!

Thanks to you both.
 
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