AD vs. workgroup

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I have a laptop provided by and to a great degree configured by my employer.
I have a small LAN at my home with the rest of the family computers on it,
including all of the printers. The LAN is just a wireless access point,
ethernet to the main office desktop, and wireless cards to all the other
desktops. My employer-assigned laptop has a wireless PCMCIA card. I can use
my broadband internet connection through the access point from all PC. I can
share folders and files and printers between the other PCs in the house
(except for my laptop) by setting the workgrous the same. My laptop is set up
to log on to the AD server at the home office. It uses cached info to logon
that way until the VPN is set up and then I am tied to the company intranet.
Ican ping the other PCs in the LAN, even when the VPN is active, but that's
it. When I changed the workgroup of my laptop to the same as my LAN, the AD
logon info disappeared, I have gotten the AD logon feature reenabled, and I
have a local admin login. Is there no way to use the LAN printer and shared
folders without logging off of the laptop and logging in to the workgroup,
and then logging out of the workgroup and back in to the AD?
 
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Baffled in Boulder said:
I have a laptop provided by and to a great degree configured by my
employer. I have a small LAN at my home with the rest of the family
computers on it, including all of the printers. The LAN is just a
wireless access point, ethernet to the main office desktop, and
wireless cards to all the other desktops. My employer-assigned laptop
has a wireless PCMCIA card. I can use my broadband internet
connection through the access point from all PC. I can share folders
and files and printers between the other PCs in the house (except for
my laptop) by setting the workgrous the same. My laptop is set up to
log on to the AD server at the home office. It uses cached info to
logon that way until the VPN is set up and then I am tied to the
company intranet. Ican ping the other PCs in the LAN, even when the
VPN is active, but that's it. When I changed the workgroup of my
laptop to the same as my LAN, the AD logon info disappeared, I have
gotten the AD logon feature reenabled, and I have a local admin
login. Is there no way to use the LAN printer and shared folders
without logging off of the laptop and logging in to the workgroup,
and then logging out of the workgroup and back in to the AD?
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If you create an identical username and password, that should take care of
it.

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Don't change anything in your laptop network config. You may irritate your
IT folks to the point that they will take away your local admin rights
entirely, and it isn't necessary....

When you're logged into the domain with cached credentials at home, and have
network/IP connectivity to the home network, you can use resources on those
other computers.....

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

Then you can access that share - and a printer on that computer - etc etc
etc.
 
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