The Domain Vs the Workgroup

[MountainNetworks]

Hi:

I need a little help speaking English One of my clients is a church. They have a Windows 2000 server with a mix of workstations running various windows installations. As I've had opportunity, I've replaced many of the workstations with Windows XP.

Most of the workstations are members of the domain. But there were a couple of workstations that were replaced without my involvement. These machines have not been added to the domain. Instead, they simply map drive letters to their shared resource directory. For the sake of consistency and network management, I'd like to change these users, join their machines to the domain, and make them use their domain logins.

Now we get to it. If everything is working just fine, why change? What's the difference on how we log in? What does it matter if we log into our own workstations and map drives, or log into the domain?

Can you help me break this down into non-technical terms for my users?

Thanks...

 

[dball63]

simplicity, easier management = less problems

my 2 cents

David Ball CNE, MCSE

 

[AlexIT]

More secure too (but a church has nothing to hide...right?)


Alex

 

[MountainNetworks]

security isn't about hiding. In fact, a church has plenty to hide...like the names, addresses and phone numbers of its children.

 

[wolluf]

would agree with David - with 2 machines outside domain, you got domain plus 2 machines to administer - rather than just domain.