Manage peer shares in a domain

[KentMitchell]

Several of my users use peer-to-peer shares on their PCs.
Is there a way to centrally manage these shares from a
domain controller? When I try to setup security on the
local shares I can only select account & groups on the
local machine. All computers and users are in the same
domain and have accounts in Active Directory. However,
none show up in the directory list at the client machine.
The server is Windows 2000; clients are XP and 2000.

Please educate me!
Thanks,

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Personally, I think that if you have a domain, no data should be stored
locally at all, and I wouldn't let users set up shares. All data should be
stored on the server, and workstations should be viewed as glorified dumb
terminals. Too much headache to administer and support.

 

[Roger Abell]

Having only the local SAM available for adding
into permissions lists is often a symptom that DNS
is either incorrectly configured on the client or that
the zone(s) supporting Active Directory are unhealthy.

 

[KentMitchell]

In most cases I would agree. However, we don't have that
many workstations and most have big hard drives that go
largely used (i.e., cheap and paid for versus server
space). The bottom line is the guys who write the checks
want to do it this way. So for now, I just need to find
the best way to live with it.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

You must sneak into their offices when they are not there and hijack
their workgroup setups into domain setups. Then implement group policy
and the machine is yours!!! Bwaaa ha ha ha. Isn't IT fun? So many ways
to frustrate users.

Or you could simply tell them that if they use shares on your servers
instead of setting up their own, that you will backup and protect their
data for them. Of course, you should take steps to backup your server if
you tell them you will. And tell them that if they use domain logons
they can access their data from any machine and they will only have to
logon to resources once instead of on each access.