Re: Workgroup computer accessing a Domain server??

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Right now I don't want to make any major changes to our current network, I
havn't made any changes at all to the workstations, just mapped a drive
letter out to the test server to see if I could actually access it without
the workstations being members of the domain. It seems to be working ok,
but I just wanted to check if there are any problems running a setup like
this..

Thanks, Scott....

"SBS Rocker" wrote:

Let me see here if I follow this correctly. You've setup the workstations as
members of a workgroup. Created domain accounts so the users on the
workstations can access domain shared resources. Why would you not want the
workstations to be members of the domain? I don't see any clear reasoning
for not wanting to given the information you've laready provided.

"Scott" <Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A65D82F0-8171-40DD-8EE8-A43AD89D2484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, I've just started playing with SBS 2003 and have setup a test server.
Most of my network experience has been using just plain old workgroups so
I'll apologize now for any dumb questions :-). Anyway, my question is
this.
I've got a few computers on my network that are all setup as a workgroup
and the test sever is a domain. I've added usernames to the server for
each
of the workstations, shared a drive on the server and all the workstations
seem to be able to access the share with no problems. Now, will there be
any
major issues accessing this server if I DON'T setup the workstations to be
on
the domain??


Thanks, Scott......





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