Re: Workgroup server to domain

From: Scott Harding - MS MVP (scrockel_at_**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:31:26 -0700

Are you just joining it to the domain or are you making it a Domain
Controller? Are you running DCpromo? No AD users will added to your machine
only AD groups. The domain Users group will added to your local user group
and the Domain Admins group will added to your local Administrator group.
Let me try something.....I'll get back to you... 

-- 
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
"Darrell" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:271901c4a192$cd18aca0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for responding, Scott, but I'm still a little
> confused. I already tried this on a test machine, and
> when I added it to the domain, Windows warned that all
> user accounts would be deleted, and they were, they were
> replaced by the AD users. Are you saying that by adding
> the domain users's pemissions to these shares, that all
> will be well?? Please aleviate my nightmares.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >All the local accounts that currently exists on this
> machine will not be
> >lost by taking it to a domain. The permissions will not
> change either. You
> >may have to add permissions for domain users to access
> these shares but what
> >you setup now will not be undone by this process.
> >
> >-- 
> >Scott Harding
> >MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
> >Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
> >
> >"Darrell" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:0d7701c4a184$b24f6840$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have to take an existing 2000 workgroup server (with
> >> many files and users) and have it join an existing 2003
> >> domain. Is there any way to do this without having to
> >> manually re-do all the folder permissions? If I
> >> understand it right, when the workgroup server joins
> the
> >> domain, all the users are deleted and are replaced with
> >> the AD users and the related SID's. Can someone point
> me
> >> to some articles, please?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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