Credentials On Multiple Domains

[Netopia]

Hey Gents,

I have a laptop and go between a few different companies to do consulting/IT work. I usually have to go sit at one of their machines or server or RDP from my machine into one of those, to do work.

I was thinking the other day, and wondered if there is a way for me to authenticate onto their networks from my laptop. I have XP as my OS, and I know I can use the "manage passwords" function to authenticate to specific machines, but I wondered if there was a way I could log on to and be authenticated to the entire domain? There are NT4, Win2K and Server 2003 domains, so that might make a difference too.

Anyone have any ideas?

Joe

 

[Markbnj]

I'm not sure what the issue is, to be honest. If you go sit down at their facility, connect to their network, and log into their domain with credentials they provided to you, then everything will work as you have requested, won't it?

I work slightly differently, in that I VPN in and provide authentication at specific points when needed. I have a domain account, but don't join my machine to the domain.

I don't know, I think I must be misunderstanding the question.

 

[stash]

They let you connect your laptop to their production network?!

 

[DrGreen2007]

Like Stash noticed...if they let you pop your personal laptop onto the network, why not run VMWare and have a 'virtual' workstation for each domain.

Go to company ABC, fire up VMware and launch ABCWorkstation
Go to company FUD, fire up VMware and launch FUDWorkstation

sign in with the credentials you have on that domain and you should be all set with authentication.

I leave a VMWare workstation instance running at 2 clients offices on there file server and just RDP into the machine when I need to do something.
RDP on custom port rather than 3389

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: DrGreen2007
Like Stash noticed...if they let you pop your personal laptop onto the network, why not run VMWare and have a 'virtual' workstation for each domain.

Hmmm...I never thought of that one. That could come in handy for testing Group Policies, etc. without grabbing somebody's workstation. I could do it over a VPN onto a Desktop VM, also.

Thanks!