Re: Laptops and Domains

From: Chris Jackson (chrisjATmvpsDOTorgNOSPAM)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:14:03 -0500

You can only join one domain. However, with XP Pro, you can authenticate to
as many as you would like, and get whatever privileges you have on each. The
one you join, however, is the only one that has the ability to manage you.
If you joined even two, and group policy differed between the two, how would
you determine who won? If you go into the Users control panel, pop into an
account, and then go to manage network passwords, you can build up a list of
domains and/or servers with credentials, and you will authenticate
seamlessly.

As for reconfiguring and rejoining a domain, you should not have to do this.
Even if you are using static IP on your domain, you can configure (with XP)
to look for DHCP, and if you don't find it, default to the static ip of your
choice.

So, the tools are all there to be able to do exactly what you want to do,
and I do so all of the time with my laptop. 

-- 
Chris Jackson
Software Engineer
Microsoft MVP - Windows Client
Windows XP Associate Expert
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"Jerry" <JerryOfBorg@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:uPbYLiZ1DHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Repective of my other thread that is going on (Remoting) I have this
> additional question about domains.  Almost all of the clients the company 
> I
> work for serves has at least three employees with laptops which they use 
> on
> both their companies domain and their home dsl or cable provider. Then 
> they
> go to Starbucks and spend 10 minutes configuring their computer before 
> they
> can get on the Internet at a "hot spot" only to get back to the office and
> have to spend 10 more minutes re-joining their computer to the company
> domain.
> Does anyone know a solution to this problem?  Why shouldn't someone with a
> laptop be able to join their computer to 100 domains? Does anyone have a
> script which will store the needed information and be able to 
> automatically
> determine which domain to join the computer to before starting Windows?
>
> Regards
>
>

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