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by wagman 2 views

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I have an nt server that everyone logs into. I would like to have then connect to one another outside of the network enviornment on a seperate hub. When I do that I get a message that says there is not a server to authenticate the log in. If I then turn around an log in to the machine with a local account I can see the other machines. Is this the only way to do this? each person would in essence have two profiles then right? Can you duplicate them easy enough?

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by richard lane

Try setting the workgroup name to be the same as the domain name. This will allow them to see the workgroup as well as the domain when they login.

To ge the password issue resolved, you COULD switch all the machines to use Windows Login authentication rather than the Microsoft Networking (NT) authentication. This would mean that they could login regardless of whether the NT server was there or not. HOWEVER, this means that the passwords would only be stored locally and not controlled through the NT User Manager. If this is not an ossue for you, then you could do that.

One question, why do you want them to connect 'outside of the network environment'? Surely that then makes them a network?

HTH

Richard

by wagman

I want them to be a peer-to-peer when not at the office. They go to clients and share files and printers. With 2000 I can only set a Domain or a workgroup. I don't want them changing network settings on there own. Thanks

by borg7of9

I have a similar situation and what I do is not use a domain, I use the server as a workgroup server, therefore I can access my server and all the client workstations as well. I password protect my shares for security, of course a user could add a share on his system, but I would let him. I have had a domain server go down with out a backup domain and it was pain. Again this is only good for small groups.

by greybeard770

With a domain, authentication is centralized to the domain controller. That authentication allows you to access member servers without having to log in again.
With a workgroup, each computer handles its own authentication. Consequently, you wouldneed to log in to every computer individually where you needed to access a resource.
If the NT server is a domain controller, the thing to do would be to add the other server to the domain.
Windows NT workstation supports 16 concurrent users andsome people use it as a multi-user server. Since you have NT Server, use it as a server.

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