Domain Question [RESOLVED]

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Can a Windows 2000 PC be a member of more than one domain, such as a romaing laptop or do you have to change the settings each time you logon to a different domain?

[Ideas Man]

No. A client can only be a member of a single domain, however, if you create the computer account on the other domains you wish the computer to be able to access, you can logon to those domains by entering the username in the following form at the login screen:

DomainName\Username

Where DomainName is the name of the domain you wish to logon to (Not required for the domain the computer is registered to) and Username is the username of the account on that domain.

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Does this create a new local version of the profile on the Laptop? If you are not logged onto the domain name will typing in a user name and password allow you to access any shared resources on the PDC?

[Ideas Man]

Yes it will, it will be in the form of Username.DomainName in documents and settings. If the accounts have the same username and password however, you should be able to access the resources across the domains w/o being prompted for one.

[visualAd]

Great. Thanks very much.

[Ideas Man]

No problems, glad I could help.