Re: Setup Trust between laptop and home network

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:35:20 -0600

Whatever you do, don't try to "unjoin" or change domains for your laptop as
you may lock yourself out in the process. You can map drives and create
shortcuts to connect to your home computers or use your home domain
credentials if you receive a credential prompt. The key is that you will
have to use your username in the format of " domainname\user or
computername\user depending on if you want to authenticate to a domain
account or local computer account.

 You will probably find that you are going to have to create local user
accounts on the home computers where you want to access shares since it is
not possible to create a trust between the domains. Then you can access a
share by mapping a drive as in " net use * \\computername\share
user:computername\username " and you will be prompted for the password for
that user account on the resource computer. After that you will find a drive
mapped in My Computer to the next available drive letter. You can make such
a mapped drive persistent but your laptop will complain every time you boot
at work because it can not locate the share. --- Steve

<mark@corporatedigital.com> wrote in message
news:1107117883.717610.69800@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all. I've got a laptop that I bring home from work that I'd like to
> have access the resources (printer!) on my home network. My home
> network is a NT2000 domain. When I come home I logon to my laptop
> using the login for the domain I use at the office. Since it cannot
> connect to the office PDC when I'm home I assume it using some caching
> logic to authenticate (?).
>
> So when I'm logged in to my laptop for a domain that really doesn't
> exist (as far as my home is concerned) how can I have my laptop access
> the resources on my home network?
>
> I started down the path of having my home network trust the domain that
> my laptop login is for but it complained when I tried to setup the
> trust saying "The ZZZ domain could not be contacted?
> Any ideas?
> thx
> mark
>

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