Can a stand alone server trust a domain?

[Matthew Speed]

I'm not quite certain if this is possible but here goes...

I have a customer that has a dedicated 2k3 server at a server hosting
company. The machine is installed as a stand alone server and is not
running active directory and it has to stay that way. They do run
their own AD forest at their corporate headquarters.

They would like me to develop a web application that uses the windows
security in their internal network for resource authorization.

Is there any way include the groups/users in the internal domain in
the user/group scheme on the stand alone server?

 

[Ozone]

In short... No... In order to access the AD accounts in another domain,
the server must be in a child domain of the parent AD domain, and/or must
have the appropriate trust relationship established. If the server is a
stand alone and is not part of a domain, this is not possible. If you have
to login to the server using a local system account and not a Domain level
account, there is no way to access domain level resources without providing
credentials for the domain in which the accounts reside...

HTH
Ozone