Comments on: Denying Windows network access http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/denying-windows-network-access/ Mon, 20 May 2013 15:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: wrobinson http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/denying-windows-network-access/#comment-51982 wrobinson Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:36:48 +0000 #comment-51982 What JonHassell stated is absolutely correct. You really need to implement a domain model because the level of administrative effort required to maintain more than 10 local computers really adds up. Doing so will allow administration and access to network resources to be centralized. You can also then better segregate groups and data; however, the eight Windows Vista Home computers would have to be upgraded or replaced.

]]> By: jonhassell http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/denying-windows-network-access/#comment-51975 jonhassell Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:11:54 +0000 #comment-51975 The answer provided certainly works, but I would also add that it will be tough to keep all of the user accounts for students, teachers, and others that you create synchronized across all of your machines without an Active Directory domain, something you can get from Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, or the newly released Windows Server 2008. You’ll be forced to make any change on all of the machines, as they will not share account information among themselves.

You might be better off to look for an old machine and an unused, genuine copy of Windows 2000 Server and join all of the machines (except the Vista Home machines — Vista Home cannot join a domain) to the domain, and then create your groups and users on the domain controller.

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