Different Workgroups

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Yobbo

Hi All

I've noticed in one of our school setups that the ICT suite of PCs are all
set to an ICTSUITE workgroup and the classrooms are all set to a CLASSROOM
workgroup.

Could somebody please tell me what the pluses and minsuses are of having
this kind of setup?

Thanks

Laphan
 
Yobbo said:
Hi All

I've noticed in one of our school setups that the ICT suite of PCs are
all set to an ICTSUITE workgroup and the classrooms are all set to a
CLASSROOM workgroup.

Could somebody please tell me what the pluses and minsuses are of
having this kind of setup?

It makes no difference whatsoever. Workgroups are merely a
cosmetic/organizational device providing no security or special sharing
functions. The only reason for having the different workgroups in your
case is for quick identification of where the computers are located.

Malke
 
Assuming there is no router linking the workgroups - communication between
computers is restricted to the workgroup.
 
Yobbo said:
Hi All

I've noticed in one of our school setups that the ICT suite of PCs are all
set to an ICTSUITE workgroup and the classrooms are all set to a CLASSROOM
workgroup.

Could somebody please tell me what the pluses and minsuses are of having
this kind of setup?

Thanks

Laphan

In addition to what Malke says, a work group is a peer-to-peer network, ie
for each computer to access all the others in the group, all the security
information has to be held locally on each machine. Therefore, as
administration of a peer-to-peer group becomes increasingly onerous as you
increase the numbers of machines, it would make sense to keep the group to
as few machines as possible, ten probably being the optimum number in each
group...(and the max concurrent connections that XP machines can accept...)
 
AJR said:
Assuming there is no router linking the workgroups - communication
between computers is restricted to the workgroup.

I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. Machines running a Windows operating
system can share files/printers between different workgroups. The name
of the workgroup is irrelevant to sharing.

Malke
 
Please quote in the order that we all read English: Conversational order.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
Assuming there is no router linking the workgroups - communication between
computers is restricted to the workgroup.

Workgroups are not the same as networks. You can have many workgroups on
the same network, and communication is not restricted between workgroups.
Workgroups are largely organizational.
 
Baloo said:
Please quote in the order that we all read English: Conversational
order. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting


Workgroups are not the same as networks. You can have many workgroups
on the same network, and communication is not restricted between
workgroups. Workgroups are largely organizational.

You should always pay attention to the general culture of a newsgroup
before you pop in with netiquette comments. Lurking is a good way to
determine the newsgroup culture if there is no posted FAQ.

There are some newsgroups in which top posting is accepted and this is
one of them. It isn't my own preference, but that doesn't matter.
People top and bottom post and post inline in the MS newsgroups and as
long as previous replies are properly quoted, it is no big deal.

Malke
 

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