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Connecting laptop to multiple domains
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Windows
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Networking & connectivity
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00557769
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>>When I move from a client to another and I want to log onto their network, actually I log on locally, go to the My Computer properties, Network Identification and Properties in which I can change the Domain name but this requires the LAN admin to re-authenticate me to its network (enter a user id and a password).
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>>Is there any way to have multiple login domains?
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>>I have Windows 2000 Pro on my laptop.
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>Eric,
>You can set up your laptop to not log into the domain but a workgroup. By changing the workgroup when you visit the client, you will have access to their network provided you log in to each system that you want to access.
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>For example, you need to access the printer shared on PC2 and the data on PC1. You need to authenticate the workgroupname\username for PC1 and PC2. Using a domain login simply bypasses the individual authentication.
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>Changing workgroups is something you can do locally and you don't need the network admin to do anything.
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>HTH.

I tried this but it causes me some problems. I need to access SQL Server database into NT Integrated security mode and only having a Workgroup won't allow me this.
Éric Moreau, MCPD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
Moer inc.
http://www.emoreau.com
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