And in a related note, I had an occasion yesterday that had me a little stumped...
I was building W7 onto a new work laptop, during which it detected my homegroup and asked if I wanted to join it - which I thought would be a rather good idea, since the work laptop will ultimately be joined to the corporate domain, so being in my homegroup would be quite handy. It obviously wanted my homegroup password, which of course I couldn't remember since I'd set it up ages ago, and never given it another thought. The laptop reminded me I could get the password from another machine already in the homegroup via its control panel applet... Therein lies the rub, - my home network is also a domain, so my home PC is also a domain member... the NLA feature *had* identified that it was a domain network, and set the location to "Domain" accordingly... and because of this, most of the homegroup functionality was disabled... I couldn't look up the homegroup password, nor could I see an obvious way of changing the location setting to be a "home" network. Thus I couldn't join the laptop to the existing homegroup.. So how exactly is one supposed to run both a domain *and* a homegroup concurrently? - I've guessed the config came about because when I built W7 on the home PC, it asked me about creating a homegroup as part of that install, - which took place *before* I subsequently joined it to my home domain.. Thus the homegroup is "there" but seemingly not manageable any more (unless I could remember the password of course, in which case I could probably have joined the new laptop and managed it from there - at least until I joined that to the corp domain..) Paul G. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 November 2009 05:48 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 7 - Network Location Awareness Not sure, but you can set this 'types of networks' via GPO. From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 7 - Network Location Awareness Ahh the joy of delving into a new OS. When my freshly imaged (via sccm) Win 7 machine is first logged on to it prompts with the NLA box asking me to define what type of network my domain is. Now from what I can see it should not ask at all for a domain joined machine that is on the domain. It should automatically set the location as "Domain" and not prompt me to choose Home, Work or Public. Has anyone seen this behaviour? What am I missing? James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
