Domain versus Field Networking

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Tom Deckert said:
We are currently running a Win2000 domain with Active Directory in three
cities. The laptops and desktops are Windows XP (both SP1 and SP2). Our
staff regularly visits clients and has to network together at the client
location and share data through a common directory. The common directory
has full permissions for Everyone and those permissions are pushed to each
laptop.

Unfortunately when we configure a network (wired or wireless) for use
outside the domain we have to authenticate each user in that network to
every laptop in the network before the data can be shared. Every user has
administrator rights on their laptop. This setup time is both annoying and
costly.

Is there a better way?
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Teach your users to authenticat explicitly to a
domain in which their computer is NOT a member
but where they (the users) have a separate account.

There are GUI methods in Explorer but here is the
(basic) command line version that you can even put
into batch files for them:

net use M: \\Server\Share * /user:DomainName\UserName

You can only "logon" to a single domain at one
time but you can AUTHENTICATE to many domains
using such explicit methods.
 
We are currently running a Win2000 domain with Active Directory in three
cities. The laptops and desktops are Windows XP (both SP1 and SP2). Our
staff regularly visits clients and has to network together at the client
location and share data through a common directory. The common directory
has full permissions for Everyone and those permissions are pushed to each
laptop.

Unfortunately when we configure a network (wired or wireless) for use
outside the domain we have to authenticate each user in that network to
every laptop in the network before the data can be shared. Every user has
administrator rights on their laptop. This setup time is both annoying and
costly.

Is there a better way?

Thanks.
 
Tom Deckert said:
We are currently running a Win2000 domain with Active Directory in three
cities. The laptops and desktops are Windows XP (both SP1 and SP2). Our
staff regularly visits clients and has to network together at the client
location and share data through a common directory. The common directory
has full permissions for Everyone and those permissions are pushed to each
laptop.

Unfortunately when we configure a network (wired or wireless) for use
outside the domain we have to authenticate each user in that network to
every laptop in the network before the data can be shared. Every user has
administrator rights on their laptop. This setup time is both annoying and
costly.

Is there a better way?
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when you do this in the field how many machines have to access how many
other machines??

below i assume you take one laptop to a remote site and have to distribute
data to users on that site.

possible better ways:
1. usb thumb drives
2. cd-rw, cd-r, dvd-ram
3. take your one traveling laptop and push the data onto their local server
where all the local users can access it, this would only require you logging
in once to the local server and no other configuration change.
4. if multiple machine really must access it directly from your traveling
laptop try enabling your guest account (temporarily) to let them access it
without having to login to your machine directly.
 
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