Topic: Domain server for Win2k computers

[Boris]

I don't see any such discussion.

Would you like to? Just kidding
It was stopped just before it turn into such discussion, that was not necessary.
The topics matter is solved and it can rest in peace (in the archive) unless there are new findings.

[twijtzes]

Yippie !!!!

Thanks a lot Boris and Greg ! Need to write up some sort of Howto. When you know what to do it's  fairly easy

Would that be useful ?

Taco

[David Harper]

What exactly worked for you in the end?

[twijtzes]

The situation was the following

My network consists of (only) win2K workstations, and a SME 7 latest update server.

In the old situation all users authenticated against the win2k machines. On each win2k machine individual user mappings were made to connect to the relevant shares on the network. As the organisation is rapidly growing it became too much work to set up individual user accounts on each win2k machine therefore I wanted to use domain authentication, whereas in the past we were using workgroups.

To change from workgroups to domains I used the solution provided by Boris and Greg

1. Create a group in SME server manager with the name ntadmins and the description Domain Admins
2. Assign a user to this group (username)
3. Goto Win2k machines and change the workgroup of each machine to TEMP.
(configuration screen -> system -> network tab)
4. restart the win2k computer
5. Log in as Administrator on the win2k machine
6. Change from workgroup to domain providing the domain name of the SME-server
7. The Win2k machine asks for a username/password: enter the username and password from step 2
8. If all went well, the win2k computer wants to reboot.

I also switched on roaming profiles (SME server manager), so users get their own desktop after logging in (very cool!)

If you want to make mappings to specific i-bays this can be done in the NETLOGON.BAT file. My NETLOGON.bat file has a time setting and a mapping to a few internal directories on the SME-server. Another option (if roaming profiles are on) is to make the mapping on the desktop (extremely ugly), however I need mapping that are just for me....

I need a few more readthroughs before this is a recipe to change from workgroup to domain in windows

[cactus]

I need a few more readthroughs before this is a recipe to change from workgroup to domain in windows

Do we really? IMHO this is very basic windows networking stuff that has been published on the net multiple times.

[twijtzes]

Perhaps you're right, but i couldn't find it, and looking at the number of views, of this topic I gues there are more people with similar questions