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Domain and workgroup
Name: Abdelhak Date: November 2, 2001 at 12:28:03 Pacific
Comment:
I would like to know the difference betwen workgroup and domain. Thanks.
Name: Hari Date: November 2, 2001 at 14:27:32 Pacific
Reply:
The major difference of a domain and workgroup is where the security database is located. In a workgroup when you login to the computer,it looks for a user name and password in that particular computer. In a domain,when you login to a computer which is connected to a Domain,it will look for your username and password in the domain controller. A workgroup is a group of computers connected to each other with or without a server ,but accounts are managed locally.(in the particular computer.) A domain is a group of computers connected to a Domain controlled by the domain controller. So if you login to a W2k machine in workgroup,you have to have an account in that machine to login. In the same workgroup,if you go to another machine you will have to create an account again in that particular machine to login and so on. In a domain,if you have an account,you can login to any machine which is connected to that particular domain with out creating an account for particular computer. In simple language domain can be managed centrally and workgroup has to be managed locally. I hope this helps
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Name: Abdelhak Date: November 2, 2001 at 19:58:55 Pacific
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Hi Hari, Thanks alot for your explanation ,it sure helped me. Abdelhak
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Response Number 3
Name: Mohsen Date: December 5, 2001 at 02:23:09 Pacific
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Dear Sir/madam, Hello, I'm manager of an internet center , here we have 3 servers. I have a problem with my mail server. our operating system for mail server is linux but our DNS is windows 2000 advance server , and server for our network is NT.4 That's my problem : Our users in mail server unable to receive some of them E-mail's from other servers in internet. For example : I can't recived my E-mail from -yahoo- but I don't have any problem with -hotmail- and the same for other sites. I can send to -yahoo mail- but I can't received form that I would be very grateful if someone more experienced then me could look in to the matter and tell me why we are have this problem and how to solve it. I should be glad if you would do that for me Thanks a lot Mohsen Rafiei p.s. I'm looking forward to hearing from you as your first convenient time.
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