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by wsamis

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Hello all. I was just wondering if I could get some insight/best practices info on how any of you deal with notebooks within a W2K network. Do you join the notebooks to the domain even if your users are mostly traveling or do you leave them in a workgroup environment and just have them manually authenticate when needed? Any 411 would be great. Thanks in advance!

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by joseph moore

Personally, I add the laptops to the network, and log into them once with the user account before the user leaves the network.
From them on, the user keeps logging into the laptop using their domain account. Since Win2K caches accounts, there is nologin problem. Also, Win2K does not give the no domain controller error message so visible in NT4.
Then when the user comes back to the office, they log in again to the network, and any policies that have been implemented are pushed onto the laptop.
So, I say yes, add the laptop to your Domain.

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