Topic: workgroup/domain

[cattledog]

Hi all,  This may be a stupid question but here we go.  If we decide to use sme as a workgroup server instead of domain server are the users that are added to server used or is the windows client using local credentials for logon?  What I want to do is that each user has password checked by server.

[mmccarn]

In workgroup mode all windows logins will require local accounts.

The specific difference between a 'workgroup' and a 'domain' is that in a domain, each workstation is re-configured (during the 'join' procedure) to 'trust' the domain controller. 

The purpose of this workstation-to-server "trust" relationship is to let the domain controller tell the workstation 'yes - this user is permitted to login'. 

In 'workgroup' mode, this trust relationship has never been created, so the windows computer has no reason to listen to anything the server says.