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by sayal4

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I have a network of 130 clients machines mixture of windows xp professionals and windows 98. Domain controller is windows2000 advance server.

Only one domain exist in the network.When a user open my network places to browse the domain computers, under the domain name he see all the computers.
What i want to do is that when a user browse the network, a user should see different containers e.g finance, audit, planning, estate etc etc. and under finance he should see computers of finance dept only and so on. Just like the folders in windows.
Imagine 1000 users of one domain and different departments, how difficult it would be to browse them

Keeping in view that i have xp prof and windows 98 clients what should i do.
Detail explanation would really help.
Thanks.

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by leonard_aj

Create subnets for each department.
Set up one shared network folder on the server with subfolders for each department that everyone can access

by simon.fraser

Before you do anything you must consider upgrading Windows 98 clients to XP. Because you have Windows XP and Windows 98 Clients your common theme is only subnets. With XP clients you can use other ways to do the same job. That is you can use group policy security groups and shares to give you what you require. If you cannot upgrade to the windows 98 boxes then you need to resort to subnets. You did not mention if you have managed switches on your networks. if you do then you can vlan the required segments. The most important step for you to consider before you do anything is to decide whether to upgrade your windows 98 clients.

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