Workgroups and domains provide ways for multiple Windows-based computers on a network to communicate. Both systems allow for file sharing and printer sharing. The main difference comes down to how the ...

If you leave a company and your personal computer is connected to the company's domain, you can leave the domain to join a Workgroup provided that you're directly connected to the domain and that you ...

I administer about 400 computers...Dell boxes all running WinXP Pro SP2. The one thing that sucks is there is no Windows domain hence no Active Directory. They all belong to a common workgroup on a ...

I was running just a simple workgroup on my home lan. Now I have upgraded to a windows 2000 server domain but am having some troubles with the users. Now when I log in with a workstation, I can choose ...

A system of centralized network administration, in which the permissions that grant access to resources in the network are maintained in one or more servers called "domain controllers" (see PDC).