Re: Workgroup server to domain

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

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:43:31 -0700

You must be running Dcpromo because simply joining a machine to a domain
does not remove the local accounts like you are saying. If you do make this
a Domain Controller than yes it will remove the local accounts because DC's
do not have local accounts, only domain accounts. I just did this to a
machine of mine and none of my local users or permissions were changed by
simply 'joining' a domain. You had me double guessing myself :) If you run
Dcpromo, which I don't think you want to do, this will remove your users
just it tells you. All you should have to do is go to Properties of My
Computer and then Computer Name tab, clieck on Change and then put in the
domain name that you want to join to. This should be all you have to do and
your local accounts will remain. 

-- 
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
"Scott Harding - MS MVP" <scrockel@**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eunvTwZoEHA.3392@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> 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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