Guest Blue Sky Posted February 3, 2008 Posted February 3, 2008 I am just looking to find out what the purpose of using a Windows 2003 server ? Like I understand the part of that a Window Domain is a group of computers that share common security and user account information. What about sharing a printer or accessing the Internet ? Does a domain come into play here ? I am new to the concept and hope anyone can help me out Thanks in advance Victor
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted February 3, 2008 Posted February 3, 2008 Re: Newbie with Windows 2003 Server "Blue Sky" <wtb_parts@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e1769134-01b2-43a3-91b0-d495f9cbb492@m34g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... >I am just looking to find out what the purpose of using a Windows 2003 > server ? > > Like I understand the part of that a Window Domain is a group of > computers that share common security and user account information. > What about sharing a printer or accessing the Internet ? Does a domain > come into play here ? I am new to the concept and hope anyone can help > me out > > Thanks in advance > > Victor You have already mentioned a few key points: - Central security & account management - Centralised logon scripts - Centralised file & printer sharing - Centrally managed policies While it is possible to use a server (or, for that, any Windows machine) as an Internet gateway, it is in most cases better to use a router for this purpose. You can use an ordinary Windows PC for file and printer sharing but you will be limited to 5 or 10 concurrent connections, depending on the version of Windows. With a server you can have as many concurrent connections as you have CALs (Client Access Licences).
Guest Blue Sky Posted February 3, 2008 Posted February 3, 2008 Re: Newbie with Windows 2003 Server On Feb 3, 12:39 am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote: > "Blue Sky" <wtb_pa...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:e1769134-01b2-43a3-91b0-d495f9cbb492@m34g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > > >I am just looking to find out what the purpose of using a Windows 2003 > > server ? > > > Like I understand the part of that a Window Domain is a group of > > computers that share common security and user account information. > > What about sharing a printer or accessing the Internet ? Does a domain > > come into play here ? I am new to the concept and hope anyone can help > > me out > > > Thanks in advance > > > Victor > > You have already mentioned a few key points: > - Central security & account management > - Centralised logon scripts > - Centralised file & printer sharing > - Centrally managed policies > > While it is possible to use a server (or, for that, any Windows > machine) as an Internet gateway, it is in most cases better to > use a router for this purpose. > > You can use an ordinary Windows PC for file and printer > sharing but you will be limited to 5 or 10 concurrent connections, > depending on the version of Windows. With a server you can > have as many concurrent connections as you have CALs > (Client Access Licences). Thanks for the information on the Centralised logon, file, printer and managed policies. I would like to know how does accesing the internet using a router and having a domain server controller on the same subnet work ? This is in terms of DNS and Gateway IP configurations on the workstation which signs into the domain. Does the workstation's Gateway IP gets statically populated with the routers LAN IP and the DNS servers of which one must be the Domain Server IP and the Secondary DNS of their ISP DNS ? Does this sound right ? Please if possible a detail answer of how this setup would work in a real office environment with say over 50+ workstations. Thanks in advance Victor
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