davidno99
IS-IT--Management
- Jun 28, 2010
- 10
Hi,
I have a small business LAN with 5 users. We are running Windows server 2003.
The PCs are XP Pro and while they are on the server domain, when logging in they log in to the workstation and not the domain.
We do some digital video production and needed to setup an inexpensive backup. We setup another XP workstation so that it would copy all our critical data from the server onto a 1 Terabyte drive every week so there was always a backup. (we also do offsite)
In addition to this we wanted to map a folder to this new XP workstation so that individuals could copy critical data on their PCs (Video files) directly to this workstation, bypassing the server because the drive capacity on the server is nearly max out and we cannot affort to upgrade it at present.
I guess you can say this is the cheap mans NAS, but we need this to get us by.
Problem is I cannot MAP a folder to this PC and it is driving me crazy.
I think it may have to do with us not logging into the domain, because after many attempts, I tried logging into the domain on my PC and after doing so, I could access the shared folder.
A) Is there anyway of sharing this folder without logging onto the domain on our workstations?
B) is there any software out there to turn a PC into a NAS easily?
Thanks
I have a small business LAN with 5 users. We are running Windows server 2003.
The PCs are XP Pro and while they are on the server domain, when logging in they log in to the workstation and not the domain.
We do some digital video production and needed to setup an inexpensive backup. We setup another XP workstation so that it would copy all our critical data from the server onto a 1 Terabyte drive every week so there was always a backup. (we also do offsite)
In addition to this we wanted to map a folder to this new XP workstation so that individuals could copy critical data on their PCs (Video files) directly to this workstation, bypassing the server because the drive capacity on the server is nearly max out and we cannot affort to upgrade it at present.
I guess you can say this is the cheap mans NAS, but we need this to get us by.
Problem is I cannot MAP a folder to this PC and it is driving me crazy.
I think it may have to do with us not logging into the domain, because after many attempts, I tried logging into the domain on my PC and after doing so, I could access the shared folder.
A) Is there anyway of sharing this folder without logging onto the domain on our workstations?
B) is there any software out there to turn a PC into a NAS easily?
Thanks