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Tufty · Guest

Hi,

I'm shortly (timescale 1-2 weeks) going to be setting up a server for a
local company. We've decided on using 2003 Server, as there's no previous
server installed.

Basically, up to now we've been using a mix of WindowsXP and Win98
workstations, using workgroups to share information where necessary. This is
starting to get unwieldy, as we now have over 30 workstations - so obviously,
updates and backups are getting more difficult to do.

Ideally we want to be able to back up all the systems from the main staff
workstation, as simply and easily as possible. We also need to allow our
users to be able to login and access their documents from anywhere in the
building (which is the main driving factor for installing a server). Ideally
we'd like to be able to control printing from the main workstation also, but
as the printers are connected via parallel and USB rather than being network
printers, we don't mind so much about that.

There's perhaps 10 different subprojects within our organisation, so my
thought was to create a different subdomain/group within Active Directory to
allow them to stay separate on one level while sharing resources on the other.

Any suggestions on how/what to do to get this going?

Carsyn Gu [MSFT] · Guest

Hi Tufty,

Thanks for your posting.

Based on my understanding, you are running the environment is a workgroup
environment without domain. All the resource are shared on the workstations
in the workgroup and no domain level shares. What you want to do:

1. Backup workstations easily.

2. Make domain level sharing.

3. Control printer easily.

4. Make different users with different privileges on the file shares.

I think all this can be done if you make an AD domain.

1. We can make a schedule task on the main workstation. The schedule
task calls the NTBackup tool to backup the main workstation every day.

2. If all the client machines join the domain, we can set the file
shares on domain level with domain user ACLs. All the shared data can be
put on a file server and assign different domain users with different
permissions.

3. We can setup Printer server. All the printers are managed on the
server, so every clients/servers in the domain can share the printers.

4. We can easily make different users with different privileges on
shares in the domain.

What you need to do is just setup a Windows 2003 AD domain. You can follow
the guideline below:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedire
ctory/default.mspx

Sincerely,
Carsyn Gu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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| Hi,
|
| I'm shortly (timescale 1-2 weeks) going to be setting up a server for a
| local company. We've decided on using 2003 Server, as there's no previous
| server installed.
|
| Basically, up to now we've been using a mix of WindowsXP and Win98
| workstations, using workgroups to share information where necessary. This
is
| starting to get unwieldy, as we now have over 30 workstations - so
obviously,
| updates and backups are getting more difficult to do.
|
| Ideally we want to be able to back up all the systems from the main staff
| workstation, as simply and easily as possible. We also need to allow our
| users to be able to login and access their documents from anywhere in the
| building (which is the main driving factor for installing a server).
Ideally
| we'd like to be able to control printing from the main workstation also,
but
| as the printers are connected via parallel and USB rather than being
network
| printers, we don't mind so much about that.
|
| There's perhaps 10 different subprojects within our organisation, so my
| thought was to create a different subdomain/group within Active Directory
to
| allow them to stay separate on one level while sharing resources on the
other.
|
| Any suggestions on how/what to do to get this going?
|

Tufty · Guest

Hi Carsyn,

Thanks! That seems to be exactly what I'm looking for! I'll post feedback
once we've started work on getting the server up and running :)

Merry Christmas!

Tufty

"Carsyn Gu [MSFT]" wrote:

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