We have field users who visit customer sites and constantly get in trouble by joining their pc to the local network's workgroup in order to login locally. We then have the serious fun of getting them joined back to our company domain while they are out in the field. I'm wondering if any of you can think of a way these users can login to the customers network without screwing up the ability to login to ours.

My first couple of solutions have some drawbacks. VMware or Virtual PC- cost, create an alternate hardware profile- time. All of our field users are now on Win2000 with the hardware registered to our primary AD domain. Active Directory is also in the mix but the rollout is not yet complete so we still have NT domain structures.

Is it feasable to setup a method for these users to login to an outside network without compromising the domain registration they currently have?

Seeing as how we have every school district in the US (and several abroad) as current or potential customers, establishing trust relationships is a job best left to the sales staff. *self impressed with comeback*

Virtual desktop via VMware or Virtual PC is not going to happen. No way in hell to justify the cost.

Trying to get our field staff up to speed on the systems they use is an ongoing exercise. They were on Windows 9x for years and don't understand that they can't do the same things they used to. Over and over telling them not to fuck with network settings doesn't seem to be effective. I'm thinking we should start billing their departement every time we have to fix this problem.