David,
I'd certainly suggest upgrading the file servers and making them DC's.
The cost should be far less than an additional 2 servers.
Using a workgroup is a short term measure and any company growing at a
reasonable rate (10 new users at once) surely would benefit from a bit
of forward
Forgot to add - you don't need to upgrade all of the workstations to
Windows 2000. They'll be OK running the current OS's - though not the
easiest to manage with loads of OS specific problems likely to arise.
What do you mean by disappearing off the network? Do you mean they
cannot be contacted
Sounds like a WINS issue.
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Why Active Directory?
Forgot to add - you don't need to upgrade all
David,
the way to best reduce total cost of ownership on any network (and
the amount of work you have to put in on it) is to go to a standardized
desktop environment where possible. The fewer hardware and software
configurations an organization has, the easier, theoretically at least, it
