samba - Oct 2002 - Win2K domain at work, Samba workgroup at home

This is a little off topic, but maybe someone can help.  I have a Win2K
laptop that's part of a corporate domain.  When I bring it home and add it
to my home LAN, it refuses to access any SMB machine (including a Samba
server, Win98 or Win95 box) complaining that "There are currently no logon
servers available to service the logon request."

Is there any way to fix this easily?  I can, as administrator, change the
System Properties->Network Indentification->Properties->Member of... to
remove the Domain assignment, and restart the computer.  This is pretty
lame, though, because it's tedious, extremely slow, and you lose your old
login and desktop -- which is very inconvient.  It would be nice if there
were mobile profiles to handle this, but I can't find it.  Even better, I
could stay in the Domain, but the machines in the home workgroup would
simply be accessible through some setting.

Thanks in advance for any help,
-d

Hi, Iam not sure if this fixes the problem, with desktop and profiles, but
it's worth a try.
I know there are some programs that allow you to add your
laptop/workstation to multiple domains instead of one that is the windows
default.

I cannot remember what the names are of these programs are, but Google! is
your friend :)

Ronald.

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, David C. Kulp wrote:
> This is a little off topic, but maybe someone can help.  I have a Win2K
> laptop that's part of a corporate domain.  When I bring it home and add
it
> to my home LAN, it refuses to access any SMB machine (including a Samba
> server, Win98 or Win95 box) complaining that "There are currently no
logon
> servers available to service the logon request."
>
> Is there any way to fix this easily?  I can, as administrator, change the
> System Properties->Network Indentification->Properties->Member
of... to
> remove the Domain assignment, and restart the computer.  This is pretty
> lame, though, because it's tedious, extremely slow, and you lose your
old
> login and desktop -- which is very inconvient.  It would be nice if there
> were mobile profiles to handle this, but I can't find it.  Even better,
I
> could stay in the Domain, but the machines in the home workgroup would
> simply be accessible through some setting.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> -d
>
>
>
>
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I've not tried this but you might be able to set the SID of
 your home machine to be the same as that of your work server...

probably you'd still lose browse functionality but you might be able to
get it to behave like a bdc...


brad
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 03:13, David C. Kulp wrote:
> This is a little off topic, but maybe someone can help.  I have a Win2K
> laptop that's part of a corporate domain.  When I bring it home and add
it
> to my home LAN, it refuses to access any SMB machine (including a Samba
> server, Win98 or Win95 box) complaining that "There are currently no
logon
> servers available to service the logon request."
> 
> Is there any way to fix this easily?  I can, as administrator, change the
> System Properties->Network Indentification->Properties->Member
of... to
> remove the Domain assignment, and restart the computer.  This is pretty
> lame, though, because it's tedious, extremely slow, and you lose your
old
> login and desktop -- which is very inconvient.  It would be nice if there
> were mobile profiles to handle this, but I can't find it.  Even better,
I
> could stay in the Domain, but the machines in the home workgroup would
> simply be accessible through some setting.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> -d
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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