Ken' said:
Hi
Can someone please explain to me what is a "domain" network and how is it
different that say a simple home network of 3 or more computers?
Thanks
Ken'
In a workgroup, each machine which has shares to offer ("server" ) can only
grant access permissions to users defined on that machine.
So if you have a network of say 20 client machines and 5 servers, you'd need
to manually maintain the same user acounts on all 5 servers, and on all 20
client machines.
Administrative nightmare.
A Domain essentially allows one machine to contain a centralised database of
user accounts which all the machines can reference.
That's the basic deal.
But there's more.
Once you have a domain, there are lots of things you can do more easily.
You can have much greater admin control of the machines via Group Policy
etc;
You can set up secure wireless access easily with IAS etc etc.
