Re: setting up an authentication pc in a network

On Aug 17, 12:39 pm, Joe <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
one.1m...@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.

The problem is that windows server 2003 is too expensive and free
samba/linux/php/apache is too confusing. I remember once seeing in
another organization, a logon software that either sounds like novell
or it maybe is novell. But i couldn't find anything like domain
controller at novell.com

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: setting up an authentication pc in a network
    ... about 4 accounts and those 4 people can only use a specific pc ... through paid software? ... What you want is called a domain controller. ... or it maybe is novell. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: setting up an authentication pc in a network
    ... about 4 accounts and those 4 people can only use a specific pc ... or it maybe is novell. ... Windows Server then you really are in bad shape. ... Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Domain unavailable for some logons
    ... You probably have a dns problem and the computer that you can not logon to ... with the domain account can not find the domain controller. ... > couple logon accounts for most of the 25 PC's. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • RE: NDS 6 to Win2K3 File Migration
    ... Let me see if I can clarify this cluttered environment ... ... Netware client to log in and gain access to the Netware File system. ... since we already have the Computer accounts and user accounts in the AD ... we would like to map the Novell account with the existing AD account. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.migration)
  • RE: NDS 6 to Win2K3 File Migration
    ... It seems that the account in AD are the same in Novell, ... two accounts, one is in AD and another is in Novell. ... one-time migration of NDS or Bindery directory objects to Active Directory. ... transferred NetWare files, you must transfer the NetWare files to an NTFS ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.migration)
Loading