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Windows Server 2003: Domain Controller with Notebook

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TiziteLayinLow

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I have a home network with server 2003. I want my laptop to access the domain for the other network shares and for backup purposes.

I want to be able to access the same profile on or off of the domain. When Im at school I still want access to my profile, but when the domain is able to connect, i want to be able to login.

Any suggestions?

thanks, tizitelayinlow
 
Explain your situation and your wants/needs in a more descriptive manner. You can logon with cached credentials when not at home, on your windows domain network. If your saying you want to logon with that profile, but then use a school profile when you connect to their network then you can do it, hit resources, you'll just have to use Run as or Logon with different user credentials. .
 
well - there is no school profile just wireless internet.

i just want to be able to login, if i login now without being at my house, i have to login with a different user and then my profile is different. i want the same background and stuff

thanks for the posts
 
Your laptop should used cached credentials as mentioned above. It will detect that the domain is not available and log you in anyway using the same username/password as if you were connected to your domain at home. All user profile setting should be identical. If not, you're doing something wrong.
 
I had a similar situation a while ago ... I connected to my company's domain, and I had access to my profile and all my network folder mappings, but when at home, I was still able to log on the domain ... since it found no domain available at the time, I would just loose my network mappings ... everything else (ie, my profile settings) would work just fine ...
 
awesome! thanks, another quick one.. i have my laptop in workgroup model right now, anyway to get my local profile into the domain based? maybe a program..
 
I would try copying it ... I've tried it before, and it worked minus a few things I could re-setup with no problem ...


To take the question to another level:

It would be nice if you could share a profile for 2 profiles ... like having a shared profile that works when I connect between 2 different domains ... but that probably isn't possible. But we'll never know ... anyone knows a way of doing it?

Because setting up the profile for 2 or more accounts is a pain ... okay, so many softwares now ask on installation if we want to install for ALL profiles, or just the running ones ... but for those that don't ask it ... 🙁
 
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