multiple domains and workgroups
 

A limitation of Windows is that you can only belong to one workgroup or one domain at a time while not being able to be in both a workgroup and a domain under the same instance of an operating system.

Has Linux overcome this limitation with SAMBA or by some other means?

I'm working with a user who wants to log on locally and be part of a workgroup sometimes, other times join 2 different active directory trees that are separate and only run one operating system. With Windows, I understand that this can't be done. That is why some Windows users dual boot with say XP media center and Professional on the same machine. I don't want to do this.

Obviously, they would have to switch users logging in and out.

Is this even possible with any operating system?

unrelated to networking. moved to Linux - General. in addition it's not samba's place to innovate as such. they are there to replicate and integrate with M$'s stuff.

Whoops !!
 

I'm sorry for choosing the wrong catagory. Nevertheless, is there a way to be a member of more then one workgroup or domain at once? I really haven't been able to find out much about this before.

as above, samba does not implement new features, it simply recreates linux equivalents of Microsoft domain and workgroup concepts.

Oh well....
 

I guess it just can't be done. I guess that is another reason to dual boot. :D

Since dual booting can solve the problem, while creating another; perhaps vmserver would be the solution.

Assign the base instance of the OS to the everyday workgroup/domain. Use it as a host OS for vmserver & create a guest instance of the OS for each additional desired workgroup/domain.

This will eliminate the hassle of dual booting at the cost of the possible need for more resources, especially RAM, to get decent performance.