Network ID

Tried finding a solution on microsoft board to no avail. Thought i would try here.

tanks in advance,
roy

Have a laptop that is required at school for the kids.
They are required to be configured as part of the school
domain to access the resoures there.
Here at home we have our own workgroup in which we share
our own resources.
What options do we have to be able to use both.
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Reply;
You need to create a separate hardware profile for each
network. Set up the appropriate harware profiles with the
necessary network information and then select which
profile to use when you boot up the machine.

My reply;
with workgroups alone this does not work.
kids have to take the laptop to the school IT dept if i
lose the login there. so what i tried first which makes
me hesitant to try anything else was;
on my laptop which only is member of our home workgroup.
i copied the only profile (named undocked profile) and
named it (home).
then i restarted the computer and went in with the new
profile. i changed the network id and workgroup name to
(george).
restarted the computer and went in with the original
hardware profile (undocked profile).
checked to see that my original name and workgroup were
there and they were not. this profile is now using the
new naming.

Reply;
you can either be a workgroup machine or a domain
machine . not both.

You can still access resources (in most cases)
irrespective of the you chose
either method.

For example, when I bring my work laptop home (which is
corporate domain
bound) I can still access my home network by doing the
following

1 - make sure I have one user ID which is the same as
that of the work
domain account
or
2 - always connect to resources at home with a net use *
\\someresource\blah
/user:<homemachine>\<homeuser>

Browsing may have it's own sets of problems as the shell
is kind of using
the misbehaviors of the Browser service.

My reply;
>1 - make sure I have one user ID which is the same as
that of the work domain account

SO WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE. CAN YOU CLARIFY USER ID? WHEN
XP STARTS IT AUTOMATICALLY STARTS IN ADMINISTRATOR
PROFILE. WHEN YOU LOOK UNDER USER ACCOUNTS THERE ARE ONLY
2 THERE ADMINISTRATOR AND GUEST.
ON NETWORK ID THERE IS KIDNAME@SCHOOLDOMAIN.EDU AND THE
DOMAIN NAME IS SCHOOLDOMAIN.EDU

>2 - always connect to resources at home with a net use *
\\someresource\blah/user:<homemachine>\<homeuser>

SPECIFICALLY WE NEED TO SHARE PRINTER AND SHARED FILES
ACCESS. IF SAY FOR A PRINTER THAT WAS NAMED HP ON A
COMPUTER CALLED DAD IN A WORKGROUP NAMED FAMILY. HOW AND
WHAT WOULD YOU
TRANSLATE "\\someresource\blah/user:<homemachine>\<homeuse
r>" AS?

>Browsing may have it's own sets of problems as the shell
is kind of using the misbehaviors of the Browser service.

BROWSING DOES NOT SEEM TO BE AN ISSUE.
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Reply;
I do the following
I have a toshiba laptop with winXP..They have a piece of
software called: ConfigFree
With it I am able to have as many network configurations
as I want...Corporate LAN with domain, home network
direct, I can even customize my IE settings with it and
also DNS, etc.

My reply;
from what i am seeing on google though this is a toshiba
laptop software.
we have dells
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