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 ...

OK, here's the problem. We've got a new AD network that's coming online soon. Across a WAN we have around 15+ workgroups and locally we have 2 domains and a workgroup. Everything local is running off ...

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).