Small Office Setup Suggestions Requested

[NC Beach Bum]

I am setting up a small office server with 3 users on a single Windows 2000
Server. The current plan is to keep things at low level of complexity in
this 3 person office. So what I am thinking is to setup the server as a
local file server with all local accounts and passwords that do not expire.

One person has a laptop and they want to use offline folders with automatic
file synchronization when they dock and undock their laptop.

Will this work on Windows 2000 Server? Do I have to move them up to Server
2003? Does I have to install a domain with active directory?

All thoughts and recommendations are most welcome!

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NC Beach Bum

 

[Danny Sanders]

Re: Small Office Setup Suggestions Requested

One person has a laptop and they want to use offline folders with automatic
> file synchronization when they dock and undock their laptop.
>
> Will this work on Windows 2000 Server?


Yes


>Do I have to move them up to Server
> 2003?


No.


>Does I have to install a domain with active directory?

No

hth
DDS



"NC Beach Bum" <NCBeachBum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A06BB24C-46FC-40DB-88C8-C674DD22FBA5@microsoft.com...
>I am setting up a small office server with 3 users on a single Windows 2000
> Server. The current plan is to keep things at low level of complexity in
> this 3 person office. So what I am thinking is to setup the server as a
> local file server with all local accounts and passwords that do not
> expire.
>
> One person has a laptop and they want to use offline folders with
> automatic
> file synchronization when they dock and undock their laptop.
>
> Will this work on Windows 2000 Server? Do I have to move them up to
> Server
> 2003? Does I have to install a domain with active directory?
>
> All thoughts and recommendations are most welcome!
>
> --
> NC Beach Bum

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Re: Small Office Setup Suggestions Requested

Setup workgroup and windows 2000 should work. Good luck!

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"NC Beach Bum" <NCBeachBum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A06BB24C-46FC-40DB-88C8-C674DD22FBA5@microsoft.com...
I am setting up a small office server with 3 users on a single Windows 2000
Server. The current plan is to keep things at low level of complexity in
this 3 person office. So what I am thinking is to setup the server as a
local file server with all local accounts and passwords that do not expire.

One person has a laptop and they want to use offline folders with automatic
file synchronization when they dock and undock their laptop.

Will this work on Windows 2000 Server? Do I have to move them up to Server
2003? Does I have to install a domain with active directory?

All thoughts and recommendations are most welcome!

--
NC Beach Bum

 

[johnboy007]

Re: Small Office Setup Suggestions Requested


It will work fine but if you change passwords you will have to change it
in two places etc...

With 3 users would not be as much of an issue, in effect you will be
setting it up in a workgroup you could do this with XP also.


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