| James Walters [MSFT] 2004-06-28, 7:29 pm |
| For administrative and security purposes it would be best to run the
computers in a domain. With the clients in the domain, network
communication will be more efficient.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
EBusiness Server Team
I have a probe I work for a small company and they wanted to up grade the
network so we went and got server 2003 small business eddition the main
reason I sugjested it was to get better security (we were just running a
simple peer to peer on about 6 xp home machines) well come to find out xp
home cannot jion a domain so now we have a server and a bunch of machines
that stiill are for the most part peer to peer. My question is it worth the
added expence to upgrade the machines to xp pro so that they can jion the
domian. I have the server acting as the gateway to the net and as a
firewall and I would like to use the exchange to do the eamil for the
office, the only other uses for the server right now would be for some file
storage and to store out quickbooks data base wich is used by 5 users. will
being on the domain bee of any benifite as far as speed or net-trafic.
thanks
Francisco
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