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Need to work on domain & workgroup
Name: jrg Date: August 3, 2006 at 09:09:20 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: 1.86Ghz/1Gb Product: Dell
Comment:
I have a Dell laptop configured to work on the domain my employer has setup. I also have a non-domain workgroup set up for my machines at my home. When I take the laptop home, I can get to the internet fine wired/wirelessly. However, since the computer is not set up as a member of my workgroup, I can't do file sharing/print sharing easily. Anyway to set up the machine to work on both or to be able to switch it easily? Can this be done with separate user accounts?
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: August 3, 2006 at 14:02:48 Pacific
Reply:
No. You can't be on both a Workgroup and a Domain.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: August 3, 2006 at 15:07:33 Pacific
Reply:
You can get close though.
Trick I have found is rename your home workgroup to the company domain name but without the .com/whatever.
so if your company is widgets.com call your workgroup widgets. Then whatever account you are using on the laptop for the company make a same name account with same password on all your workgroup pcs. access at home is easy then.
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Response Number 3
Name: jrg Date: August 4, 2006 at 06:17:44 Pacific
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Turns out I tried to find machines on my workgroup again and tracked them down. Then I just created shortcuts on my laptop to the locations I needed. It asked me to login to the remote machine the first time and I saved that and now it's setup. Thanks for your suggestions, I appreciate.
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