Re: setting up an authentication pc in a network

one.1more@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Our organization has 25 windows xp professional pcs and about 100
people. Sometimes, people leave and new people come. Every pc has
about 4 accounts and those 4 people can only use a specific pc
assigned to them.

Every pc automatically gets a local ip adress 192.168.X.XXX address
and they are accessible to each other
we want to change the system that one pc has a database of all the
user names and passwords and any of the 100 people should be able to
login to any pc using their accounts

How can this be done for free? if its not possible, how can it be done
through paid software?


What you want is called a domain controller. The free way is using Samba
on a Linux machine, which may offer more of a learning curve than you
would like. The easy way is, if you're sure you'll never use more than
75 devices for local or remote access, SBS, as I'm sure you've guessed.
You need the extra CALs as device-based, which you specify when you
install them. Over 75 users or devices, whichever is fewer, it's the
full Server 2003.
.

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