These terms are all about computer networking, the way that computers communicate with one another across a network. Let’s start with understanding what a domain is. If you use a domain, you will have ...

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 ...

Can someone please explain this behavior to me? NT4 Network, WINS, PDC. 98SE station. 98 station logs onto the network fine. Script executes, drives map, printers map. Can search for computers thru ...

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 had a network that was running on an NT 4.0 server using a domain. We recently upgraded to Windows 2k server and set up an Active Directory domain. We ran into all sorts of problems, DNS wasn't ...

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).