Joining Laptop to more than 1 domain

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Philip

Hi, I have a Win XP laptop join to a domain, eg.
mydomain.com.

Is it possible for my laptop to join another domain, eg.
hisdomain.com, without unjoining the current domain?

My motive is to allow my laptop to login to both different
domains and use the file and print resources there.

Regards.
 
Not sure if you can do it, but why not just map the resources needed from
the second domain? I do it all the time on my development domain. I log into
the domain and then NET USE the desired printers and drives from the
production domain....
 
No - your computer can belong to only one domain or workgroup at a time. But
you don't need to belong to a domain in order to access resources on it -
log in as usual to your domain, with cached credentials, and then map
drives/printers on the other one while specifying the credentials for the
other domain. You can use net use, or in Explorer, map a network drive and
use different credentials.
 
No you can only be in one domain at a time.

What you can do is use NET USE with the /USER option and also use RUNAS with the /NETONLY option or also check out CPAU
on the free win32 tools page of www.joeware.net which is like runas /netonly.
 
If the domains are both in a tree, either amend the trust relationship
or join the parent domain.
 
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