small network setup with users

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Nick Calladine

Hi
Can some one help me please and confirm or point me in the right direction

We have about 5-7 computers

I have set up a small workgroup with an xp pro machine acting as simplified
server.

I not too sure how workgroup authentication works but is there a way via a
piece of software or through login on users on to a local machine to then
authorise through the same user name which appears on the local machine and
the server so they obtain the groups and right off there..
or altenatively have like a script that which the users logon to a local
account on the machine it then go off and grabs all the users and groups on
the so called server copies them local so like a push user managment
situation.

My main aim is to be able to get the security to control the groups for
network apps on the server and the other thing is to map a network drive
which is on the workstation / server machine...

Can anyone suggest any work arounds apart from buying a server .... we will
look in to a domain solution later but this is short term and keep cost
down.

Many thanks
 
Hi
Can some one help me please and confirm or point me in the right direction

We have about 5-7 computers

I have set up a small workgroup with an xp pro machine acting as simplified
server.

I not too sure how workgroup authentication works but is there a way via a
piece of software or through login on users on to a local machine to then
authorise through the same user name which appears on the local machine and
the server so they obtain the groups and right off there..
or altenatively have like a script that which the users logon to a local
account on the machine it then go off and grabs all the users and groups on
the so called server copies them local so like a push user managment
situation.

My main aim is to be able to get the security to control the groups for
network apps on the server and the other thing is to map a network drive
which is on the workstation / server machine...

Can anyone suggest any work arounds apart from buying a server .... we will
look in to a domain solution later but this is short term and keep cost
down.

Many thanks
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Nick,

Your question is not terribly clear, but give this a shot. With workgroup
authentication, you must define an account, with identical password, on each
client and each server where you intend to use the account. With a domain, you
define the account once, on the domain controller.

You define Local Groups on each server. In a domain, you can also define Global
Groups on the domain controller.

You could, maybe, keep cost down by using a server running Linux. I haven't
tried this solution, I know of some who do this, but it isn't supported here.
Here, we know Windows best. And for your solution, you will need, I suspect,
Windows Server 2003.
 
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