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How to be both a member of a domain and a home workgroup at the same time

All our teachers XP pro laptops are members of the school domain. When a teacher goes home, how can they gain immediate access to file sharing on their home LAN which has a different workgroup name?

How do I set up the network settings to facilitate this?

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Alistair7

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The teachers already have a local machine account called "Home" which they use at home. But how can they set up a workgroup at home without affecting and changing the domain settings already set and needed for school?

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Steve Agnew

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Alistair7

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Thanks to both of you for the help, particularly DeadNight.

Deadnight you said, "you wont be able to (and probably shouldn't use network browsing)"

Do you mean that it's not possible to have the laptop easily logging onto the domain account at school, and then later easily logging onto the HOME local machine account giving immediate access to the home LAN workgroup?

Do you have the time to expand a little on why they "probably shouldn't us network browsing"?

thanks

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