Workgroups and domains provide ways for multiple Windows-based computers on a network to communicate. Both systems allow for file sharing and printer sharing. The main difference comes down to how the ...

I had a network that was running on an NT 4.0 server using a domain. We recently upgraded to Windows 2k server and set up an Active Directory domain.<P>We ran into all sorts of problems, DNS wasn't ...

I administer about 400 computers...Dell boxes all running WinXP Pro SP2. The one thing that sucks is there is no Windows domain hence no Active Directory. They all belong to a common workgroup on a ...

There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. The workgroup in Windows 11 ...

A relatively simple system of network administration that is widely used in small Windows networks. Computers and printers are each assigned to a workgroup name, which allows them to communicate with ...

If you leave a company and your personal computer is connected to the company's domain, you can leave the domain to join a Workgroup provided that you're directly connected to the domain and that you ...

A system of centralized network administration, in which the permissions that grant access to resources in the network are maintained in one or more servers called "domain controllers" (see PDC).