I have upped a machine to Windows Server 2003, as I acquired it, and have one simple question.
I use this as a workstation and server (had to enable acceleration, audio, video, etc.)
I have another machine with ten user accounts whose documents are stored on this machine. In the past:
A user would log on there, and a visible batch script would run, mapping printers and drives via VB scripts. The J: drive would always be documents, and on every account it mapped to a different share.
The problem with that setup was that the user had to maintain an identical password on this machine and the other to maintain access to the network drives, thus, if they changed the password on only one, it wouldn't affect this and the script would give them authentication errors, thus giving them no printer or document access.
In upping this to Server 03, I had hoped to be able to store the user accounts (documents at the least) on this server, then have them log into the account on it from the other machine, so that when they changed a password, it would change on both the server and that machine. Almost like a domain environment with AD, but I have no domain, so I can't use AD
Any ideas?
Thanks,
I use this as a workstation and server (had to enable acceleration, audio, video, etc.)
I have another machine with ten user accounts whose documents are stored on this machine. In the past:
A user would log on there, and a visible batch script would run, mapping printers and drives via VB scripts. The J: drive would always be documents, and on every account it mapped to a different share.
The problem with that setup was that the user had to maintain an identical password on this machine and the other to maintain access to the network drives, thus, if they changed the password on only one, it wouldn't affect this and the script would give them authentication errors, thus giving them no printer or document access.
In upping this to Server 03, I had hoped to be able to store the user accounts (documents at the least) on this server, then have them log into the account on it from the other machine, so that when they changed a password, it would change on both the server and that machine. Almost like a domain environment with AD, but I have no domain, so I can't use AD
Any ideas?
Thanks,