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Can I have a Domain Client also access a workgroup server?
Have the need of having some domain clients (win 2003 r2 domain server) also access a workgroup server (win 2008) which is on the same lan. Is this possible?
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NOTE: I may have misread the question. Workgroup server access different to being on either workgroup or domain.
Yeah it is,
You just assign local groups on that particular server. Since it's a workgroup there isn't a central directory on what can access what. Just because the machines are on the domain and other machines are on a work group, that doesn't mean that he can't access work group machines as long as he sorts out the security on that particular box.
If for example he were to make the AD group "Win2008_ADM_access", log onto the windows 2008 box and then add that group into local admins by using "domain\win2008_adm_access
Not ideal but it would work. He'd just need to make sure that the IP stack had the DNS servers in so it could find the IP of the domain controllers.
You just assign local groups on that particular server. Since it's a workgroup there isn't a central directory on what can access what. Just because the machines are on the domain and other machines are on a work group, that doesn't mean that he can't access work group machines as long as he sorts out the security on that particular box.
If for example he were to make the AD group "Win2008_ADM_access", log onto the windows 2008 box and then add that group into local admins by using "domain\win2008_adm_access
Not ideal but it would work. He'd just need to make sure that the IP stack had the DNS servers in so it could find the IP of the domain controllers.
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You could have your main PC on the domain and run another virtual machine on that PC which connects to a workgroup, but essentially its 1 or the other.