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Switching from Domain to Workgroup
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| Ken Endeley 2002-12-18, 9:25 am |
| Question people, I have a w2k pro laptop. The laptop is a member of domain A
at work. However, I also want to setup the laptop to be a member of a
workgroup at home. I thought the best way to accomplish this is to setup two
hardware profiles called HOME and WORK. Make the Home profile a member of
the home workgroup and then make the WORK profile member of the work domain.
I have tested this setup but it does not work.
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| kyfunguy 2002-12-18, 10:25 am |
| My understanding of the 'hardware profiles' is just that... you can
configure the PC to have certain devices enabled or disabled, depending upon
which hardware profile you choose, and how you configure it..I didn't think
that being a part of a 'WORKGROUP' or part of a 'DOMAIN' fell underneath the
hardware profile option.. but I could be wrong...
You might also want to consider your IP address... do you use a DHCP server
at work..? Or is it static IP addresses...? If you use static IP addresses
at work, but rely on the devices configuring their own IP adresses at
home... your Laptop may have an incompatible address for the devices on your
home network to communicate with... assuming you use the same Network card
at home and at work..
"Ken Endeley" <kenendeley@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:3e0089cb$0$1421$8e9e3842@
news.atx.net...
> Question people, I have a w2k pro laptop. The laptop is a member of domain
A
> at work. However, I also want to setup the laptop to be a member of a
> workgroup at home. I thought the best way to accomplish this is to setup
two
> hardware profiles called HOME and WORK. Make the Home profile a member of
> the home workgroup and then make the WORK profile member of the work
domain.
> I have tested this setup but it does not work.
>
>
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| Joe Smith 2002-12-18, 10:25 am |
| Like kf said the IP configuration is more important, once you figure out
what your IP configuration are (hopefully you are using DHCP at work and
home) then the easiest way to connect your laptop to your workgroup at home
is to rename your workgroup to the same name as your domain.
Not really sure what you're trying to accomplish here aside from being able
to browse the network but incase you didn't know, you can still connect to
other computers in your home network even if your laptop is not part of the
workgroup, just search for the computer name or click start -> run -> type
\\computername and hit ok...
....this is of course possbile if you have your IP working correctly.
"kyfunguy" <kyfunguy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news x0M9.10$HE3.33342@news.uswest.net...
> My understanding of the 'hardware profiles' is just that... you can
> configure the PC to have certain devices enabled or disabled, depending
upon
> which hardware profile you choose, and how you configure it..I didn't
think
> that being a part of a 'WORKGROUP' or part of a 'DOMAIN' fell underneath
the
> hardware profile option.. but I could be wrong...
>
> You might also want to consider your IP address... do you use a DHCP
server
> at work..? Or is it static IP addresses...? If you use static IP addresses
> at work, but rely on the devices configuring their own IP adresses at
> home... your Laptop may have an incompatible address for the devices on
your
> home network to communicate with... assuming you use the same Network card
> at home and at work..
>
>
>
> "Ken Endeley" <kenendeley@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:3e0089cb$0$1421$8e9e3842@
news.atx.net...
> > Question people, I have a w2k pro laptop. The laptop is a member of
domain
> A
> > at work. However, I also want to setup the laptop to be a member of a
> > workgroup at home. I thought the best way to accomplish this is to setup
> two
> > hardware profiles called HOME and WORK. Make the Home profile a member
of
> > the home workgroup and then make the WORK profile member of the work
> domain.
> > I have tested this setup but it does not work.
> >
> >
>
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| Hi
I have also laptop that is in companie's Domain and I'm using it at home
with my home computer in small(est) network (Usualy playing Quake with my
son). Domain and workgroup names are different. Only thing I have to do is
to assign static IP address to the laptop at home. I'm using 192.168.0.1 for
home computer and 192.168.0.2 for laptop but that is not important. Make
sure that you are assigning laptop's static IP address AFTER you conected it
to the home network.
Hope this will help you
"Ken Endeley" <kenendeley@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:3e0089cb$0$1421$8e9e3842@
news.atx.net...
> Question people, I have a w2k pro laptop. The laptop is a member of domain
A
> at work. However, I also want to setup the laptop to be a member of a
> workgroup at home. I thought the best way to accomplish this is to setup
two
> hardware profiles called HOME and WORK. Make the Home profile a member of
> the home workgroup and then make the WORK profile member of the work
domain.
> I have tested this setup but it does not work.
>
>
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| Andy Foster 2002-12-18, 6:25 pm |
| Dual boot
"Ken Endeley" <kenendeley@lycos.com> wrote in message news:<3e0089cb$0$1421$8e9e3842@news.atx.net>...
> Question people, I have a w2k pro laptop. The laptop is a member of domain A
> at work. However, I also want to setup the laptop to be a member of a
> workgroup at home. I thought the best way to accomplish this is to setup two
> hardware profiles called HOME and WORK. Make the Home profile a member of
> the home workgroup and then make the WORK profile member of the work domain.
> I have tested this setup but it does not work.
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