Domain logins or local logins?

TRNC

TRNC

TRNC

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I have just purchased a new laptop for an employee, I wish to connect it to our new SBS 2011 server which presumably means using a domain login.

This is fine, except he will also be using the laptop at home, for personal use and so wont be connected to the domain.

How will he login? Will he need 2 logins, one for the domain at work and one local for when elsewhere?

Also when you first setup windows it automatically creates a local login....what happens to this if we wanted to use a domain login only?

Confused....Help!!! (Thanks)
 
File sharing, trying to centralise all the files and resources that we use for work which will then make back-ups easier as they will all be in 1 place and of course accessible from any machine in the building (in theory).

The SBS server also runs a VM with XP on it to run our database and order management software which is critical, although connection to the SBS server isnt needed for this as such.
 
In that case what you should do is join it to the domain then log in and create a local account. Call it localuser or something like that to allow you to identify that account easy.

This will allow laptops to be taken away when needed. Just remember to tell the users to drop down the login box, and select the computer name to login locally.
 
Is the drop down automatically created, when I had my 7 PRO laptop on the domain I always had to manually type the domain/user or local/user to get it to work - was a real faf!

Why is it so complicated, surely all the "big boys" in the UK/World dont have this trouble with staff taking laptops off site?
 
TRNC said:
Is the drop down automatically created, when I had my 7 PRO laptop on the domain I always had to manually type the domain/user or local/user to get it to work - was a real faf!

Why is it so complicated, surely all the "big boys" in the UK/World dont have this trouble with staff taking laptops off site?
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I'm part of a 6000 device team and we get no problems at all. Depends who is managing it and how much experience they have at trouble shooting issues.

you can type 'domain\username' or 'computer name\localuser' it's the same as the drop down menu. You can also use FQDN [email protected]l (This is not an email address but it can be used [if exchange was available on the network] then yes it could be an email address too)
 
Thank you for your help.

Sadly we dont have an IT team, we muddle our way through and generally cope but domains and their uses with servers along with AD and the likes baffle the hell out of me!
 
TRNC said:
Thank you for your help.

Sadly we dont have an IT team, we muddle our way through and generally cope but domains and their uses with servers along with AD and the likes baffle the hell out of me!
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if you understand network acronyms then you are half way there. The other half is knowing what tools to use and ensure documentation is up to date.
 
I presume the new laptop will be imaged so it's configured to the companies IT policy and added to the domain. Just get the user to login with it connected at the office to create the local profile and then the user can login at home using the cached credentials.

MW
 
No, we dont have images, or an IT policy except if you break the rules you get fired for gross misconduct (this is pretty much limited to illegal activity through our network only!)

How does the cached credentials bit work - does this use just 1 login but when on the domain network it logs in and otherwise it doesnt?
 
Mr-White said:
I presume the new laptop will be imaged so it's configured to the companies IT policy and added to the domain. Just get the user to login with it connected at the office to create the local profile and then the user can login at home using the cached credentials.

MW
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Unless there's scripts in place to delete the roaming profile e.t.c but you never know what networks are running these days unless you are the administrator of it.
 
TRNC said:
Is the drop down automatically created, when I had my 7 PRO laptop on the domain I always had to manually type the domain/user or local/user to get it to work - was a real faf!

Why is it so complicated, surely all the "big boys" in the UK/World dont have this trouble with staff taking laptops off site?
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With win7 joined to a domain it should default to domain login. So at work he wouldn't need to prefix username with the domain. When at home rather than typing local computer name you can type .\username

Lot quicker :-)
 
TRNC said:
How does the cached credentials bit work - does this use just 1 login but when on the domain network it logs in and otherwise it doesnt?
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Both, on the network it logins in authenticating against the server. At home/away, it authenticates using the cached domain credentials and still logs in using the same details.

If Outlook is set correctly, it will connect to your server over the internet for email. For network shares, you'd need to have a dial up VPN which you can also login to the server from the password screen. If you have redirected folders though, I'd give that a miss as it will take an age to sync over the VPN.

TL;DR is that I'd use the same domain log-in in and out of the office.
 
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I think i'm starting to understand!!!

Outlook won't be a problem as its web-based with our domain (internet not SBS) and not hosted in house.
 
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