Re: Using laptop at work (on a domain) and at home (as a local user)

Rick Fears wrote:

> I have a problem that is similar to others in this group, but I cannot
> believe there is no solution to it.
>
> The laptop (WinXP SP2) belongs to a domain, which is fine when I am at
> work. When at home and not connected to a network I can log in to my
> user account on the laptop and work with no problems. As soon as I
> plug in to any kind of network (I have a home machine running Internet
> Sharing and connected via an Ethernet network, and more recently a
> WiFi network with an ADSL router), the system takes forever to do
> simple things like a context switch, start an application, etc.
>
> I therefore created a "local" user, gave access rights to the relevant
> files and applications, even reconfigured Outlook to us my domain
> account mailbox. This also all works fine when not connected but
> grinds to a halt as soon as a network is present.

>From MVP Lanwench:
Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources
on it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all.
Once you've logged in using your domain account (using cached
credentials), and have an IP address on the home network, you can map
drives, use printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command
line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

More:

MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel
http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna

Malke
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