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Workgroup & Domain in different Profiles

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by mpart

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In XP Pro is there a way to set a laptop to logon as one username in a workgroup in one location and another username in a domain (with local machine logon) in another location?

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by mike mullins

No, you can't be a member of a DOMAIN and a workgroup at the same time.

However, you could give the user priledges to "join computer to domain" and let them disconnect and join the domain whenever it is necessary.

They would simply remove themselves from the domain when they needed to travel to the workgroup location, then add themselves on first boot when they're back at the DOMAIN location.

Weird, but it works.
Good Luck,
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by nettek

You absolutely can. XP was designed for mobile situations such as yours. Refer to article q283676 at support.microsoft.com.

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