Re: Logging Into Multiple Domains (not at once)
From: Hugh Mulholland (hugh_mul@mulnet.com)
Date: 01/22/03
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From: "Hugh Mulholland" <hugh_mul@mulnet.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:29:59 -0500
Looking at other posts in this newsgroup leads me to believe there are many
of us who don't understand how you have to set up a laptop that logs in to
several companies' networks regularly.
For example, at Company A I have "UserID A" with "passworda" and when I go
there I have to have my computer join the CompanyA Domain. I log in with a
user id that has domain admin rights and when asked, I give this account
local admin rights to my WinXP machine.
At Company B I have "UserID B" with "passwordb". When I go there I can't
login. First I have to login locally as admin, join my computer to the
CompanyB Domain using my UserID B account, give my UserID B account local
admin rights, shut down, restart then log into Company B's Domain.
Tomorrow, back at Company A, I can't login! I have to go through the same
steps I went through yesterday at Company B. Additionally, if I'm not on
either network, I can't log into my laptop as either UserID A or UserID B,
even though both accounts have local admin rights. Only my local admin
account lets me login when not attached to any network.
I'm sure I took a wrong turn somewhere when I first installed XP Pro, there
must be an easier way than this? Thanks.
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"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:OWT6fldvCHA.1644@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> You may not appreciate the risks to your machine's
> configuration that joining a domain (post-NT4) can
> bring, due to the emplacement of domain policies.
>
> You are best off not joining to an alien domain,
> or if so, do it with assurances from domain administration
> that your machine has been pre-stage to a friendly/safe OU.
>
> The way to do this is to either :
> 1. ask for a system you can Remote Desktop connect to
> or
> 2. define a parallel account on your laptop and use it,
> launching remote tools via RunAs, accessing remote
> resources with explicit domain\username when needed
> Option 1 is to be preferred.
>
> The Win9x/Me clan have no notion of config control
> as extensive as in the NT/W2k/XP family where joining
> a domain can immediately leave all of your local accounts
> useless (except the built-in Administrator, but this might
> get renamed in the process). It all depends on what the
> dom adms have set in the GPOs, but it is not unusual to
> take control of the Administrators group, to rename
> default accounts, and less often to take control of the
> Users group membership. And that is just 3 or 4 of the
> many hundred settings that can get adjusted.
>
> --
> Roger
>
> "Hugh Mulholland" <hugh_mul@mulnet.com> wrote in message
> news:OfYIv$cvCHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> > I recently upgraded my laptop from 98SE to XP Pro.I go to several
> companies
> > and need to log into their networks. Under 98 you simply changed the
user
> > id, pasword and domain name to wherever you were. In XP it seems you
have
> to
> > join the computer to the domain, which is OK the first time but going
> > through that wizard every time seems cumbersome and therefore probably
> > wrong. Is there some type of user profile that will store the multiple
> user
> > id's and domain names locally for easy access? Without going through the
> > wizard I can't even enter a different domain name on the login screen.
> >
> >
>
>
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