RE: First Time Server Setup

From: Tufty (Tufty_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:29:02 -0800

Hi Carsyn,

Thanks! That seems to be exactly what I'm looking for! I'll post feedback
once we've started work on getting the server up and running :)

Merry Christmas!

Tufty

"Carsyn Gu [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Tufty,
>
> Thanks for your posting.
>
> Based on my understanding, you are running the environment is a workgroup
> environment without domain. All the resource are shared on the workstations
> in the workgroup and no domain level shares. What you want to do:
>
>
>
> 1. Backup workstations easily.
>
> 2. Make domain level sharing.
>
> 3. Control printer easily.
>
> 4. Make different users with different privileges on the file shares.
>
>
>
> I think all this can be done if you make an AD domain.
>
>
>
> 1. We can make a schedule task on the main workstation. The schedule
> task calls the NTBackup tool to backup the main workstation every day.
>
> 2. If all the client machines join the domain, we can set the file
> shares on domain level with domain user ACLs. All the shared data can be
> put on a file server and assign different domain users with different
> permissions.
>
> 3. We can setup Printer server. All the printers are managed on the
> server, so every clients/servers in the domain can share the printers.
>
> 4. We can easily make different users with different privileges on
> shares in the domain.
>
>
>
> What you need to do is just setup a Windows 2003 AD domain. You can follow
> the guideline below:
>
>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedire
> ctory/default.mspx
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Carsyn Gu
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
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> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm shortly (timescale 1-2 weeks) going to be setting up a server for a
> | local company. We've decided on using 2003 Server, as there's no previous
> | server installed.
> |
> | Basically, up to now we've been using a mix of WindowsXP and Win98
> | workstations, using workgroups to share information where necessary. This
> is
> | starting to get unwieldy, as we now have over 30 workstations - so
> obviously,
> | updates and backups are getting more difficult to do.
> |
> | Ideally we want to be able to back up all the systems from the main staff
> | workstation, as simply and easily as possible. We also need to allow our
> | users to be able to login and access their documents from anywhere in the
> | building (which is the main driving factor for installing a server).
> Ideally
> | we'd like to be able to control printing from the main workstation also,
> but
> | as the printers are connected via parallel and USB rather than being
> network
> | printers, we don't mind so much about that.
> |
> | There's perhaps 10 different subprojects within our organisation, so my
> | thought was to create a different subdomain/group within Active Directory
> to
> | allow them to stay separate on one level while sharing resources on the
> other.
> |
> | Any suggestions on how/what to do to get this going?
> |
>
>

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