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Possible to have choice between two domains on a laptop?

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scauffiel

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Okay, I'm wondering if this is even do-able. I've got a new CEO, he's not only the CEO of MY company, but of another as well. He's wanting to use his personal laptop for all of his work, which is understandable, so he can work on his documents and then have things sync up the next time he logs in. However, it's already a member of his other company's domain (domain A) and from my research, there's no way to add another domain (domain B); it appears to be one and one domain only.

Now, I know I could give him the rights to add a computer to a domain and teach him to constantly change membership, but that's a whole lot of messin' around and rebooting and whatnot and in the end, I'm pretty sure it's not going to work. For example, when he's part of the other domain (A) and he goes home from there he won't be able to change membership to domain B because there'll be no way for the machine to find a DC for domain B - so now he can't even get to his documents.

Thoughts? Comments?
 
No there is no way to do dual domains. One thing you could do is do a dual boot setup with each OS being a member of each domain. Then he could share a my documents folder between both of the OS's. Not the greatest solution, but it beats the changing domain idea.

John
 
Your PC doesn't need to join a Domain for you to access documents on your network. Just give him a User account on both Domains. Or you can get them to trust each other and use a single User account.
 
Well having the domains trust each other is preffered, however most times that wont happen. Having to enter domain credentials all the time to access resources on another domain is a pain. Unfortunately there is no real simple way to do this, just some workarounds.

John
 
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Computers here have a dropdown with 5 or so domains to choose from. How does that work?
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They have trust relationships setup. However I doubt seperate companies have that trust. Try a virtual machine
 
Trusts wouldn't really be applicable for this query anyways since he would only ever need a single login if the domains trusted eachother (his user account would just be granted privileges on both domains).
 
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