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AD Domain and a workgroup

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by c'town larrymac

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In my head, this won't wprk but there are a lot of smarter people than myself on here so here goes...

Is it possible to set up a machine in a Windows workgroup that is also attached to an AD domain? Perhaps with one NIC bound to the domain and the other one in the workgroup?

We're switching over from a workgroup to a domain and I have a legacy NAS that isn't AD-capable. Since I can't connect it to the domain I was trying to come up with a way to connect it to another machine on the domain and share it out that way.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

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by cmiller5400

A computer can only be a member of a domain or a member of a workgroup at one time, not both.

Bite the bullet and buy a new NAS or more HDD's to stuff in a server. This will save you some major headaches in the long run. Besides, if the equipment is that old, when will it start to go belly up?

by c'town larrymac

It turns out I outsmarted myself - the NAS is viewable from the domain and I can map drives directly to it.

The fact that a workgroup can browse a domain that's on the same physical network kind of worries me, but I'm hoping that will improve once I actually start locking this installation down.

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