Dennis Rourke said:
I have a laptop running XP Pro that connects to a domain
and works fine. Is there a way that I can connect to a
workgroup at a different location without disjoining from
the domain?
Thanks in advance
Just connect the machine to the network.
Continue to log in as if you were on the domain.
( cached credentials means this works, even if the domain is not there. )
You may need to assign it an IP address if there's no DHCP server on the
workgroup LAN.
Then there will be 2 'workgroups' present.
One with the name of the domain, and one with the name of the workgroup.
This will appear in:
My Network Places
OtherPlaces
Entire network
Microsoft Windows Network
In order to connect to other machines on the workgroup, you may need to
supply a username/password which is valid on the machine you are connecting
to. ( Unless it is using Simple File Sharing. ).
Other users connecting to you will need to supply a username / password for
your machine, in the form
'yourpc\username' along with a password. The username must exist locally on
your machine, and the shares must have access for this username. This is to
force your domain member machine to authenticate locally, rather than
attempt to contact the Domain Controler, which is not present.
