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I have 10 P.C's on a domain and planning to set up a workgroup with 5 P.C's connected with a switch Peer to Peer on a different network. All XP pro. How would it be possible to communicate between the networks..
I thought of: 1 P.C with two network cards was one of my options? If so is it possible to join a Domain and a Workgroup if I have two network cards?
This is a very unusual scenario. I know a PC can join either a domain or a workgroup but for a domain to join a workgroup......
i_XpUser
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I know it is quite unusual, but there are two separate networks. One that has 10 users in a Domain and W2003 Server, attached to a 16port Hub and another with 5 users in a workgroup Peer to Peer attached to a 16port Switch. I would like to keep the two networks separate but be able to attach one P.C to both networks when I like without having to reboot the pc every time I want to join either network.
Any ideas?
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What is it you want to accomplish?
What is it a vpn would do for you?You can admin a workgroup via Remote Desktop/VNC or other remote control apps.
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I would like to be part of the Domain permanently and be able to attach onto the other peer-peer network to transfer files to one P.C at the same time.
So instead of being plugged into the domain, pulling out the connection and plugging it into the peer-peer network, changing the domain to a workgroup and rebooting to be able to see the other P.C’s on the peer-peer network.Could I have two network cards, one plugged into the domain network and the other plugged into the peer-peer network and share files between?
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Not with Windows! I dunno know about other OS capable of doing it. maybe Linux? Unix?
i_XpUser
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It seems this would be possible with two network cards plugged into different networks. This what you need?
All connections have to be accomplished with IP addresses. You would have to know the IP addresses of any workgroup computer you wish to connect to. You can add them to the local PC's host file if you want also, to use the computer names, but of course all workgroup computers should then have static IP addresses.WILL POST FOR FOOD.
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Thanks Zenith, that's the kind of confidence I was after. I shall try it out and let you know,
any other suggestions welcome
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That still will not make you a member of the domain and the workgroup. All that configuation and cost for no gain doesn't make sense to me.
Depending on your domain name you can do the old fashioned way of name the workgroup the same as the domain. So if your domain name is mydomain.com, its netbios name is mydomain. Call your workgroup mydomain and set your user account on each pcs with same password [not to expire] and you will have access.
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Otherwise [should have occured to me before] setup a multiboot. One is a domain boot and the other a workgroup boot.
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Way hay it worked,
I was able to get connected to both the Domain and Workgroup at the same time.
With 2 network card in one p.c. I was able to use a static address on the Peer-to-Peer network. And for the other NIC I used the DHCP server for on the domain.
I just named the workgroup the same as the domain name.
Thanks for your help
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