The only difference between a workgroup and domain is the type of administration. In a
workgroup, access is controlled individually on each machine. In a domain, that is controlled
in a central location.
Depending on how you configure the resources on domain servers/clients, if that is set to
allow all, then any machine, member of the domain or not, can access those shares.
You can find all the info you want at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.
mspx
HTH,
Gary
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