samba - Feb 2005 - Migrating from Workgoup to Domain

Hi all,

I have a network spanning over 3 subnets, connected by routers (approx. 150 
Win 9X/NT/XP machines). Currently we are running a large workgroup, and I am 
considering migrating it to a domain. Since the users are always complaining 
about the browsing problem (long time in connecting to share, slow in 
browsing etc), so I would like to know if migrating to a domain will somhow 
help in the efficiency of browsing? Besides, if I turn on the domain 
settings in the Samba server (i.e.  domain master = yes, domain logons = 
yes, and some create user/machine & netlogon share stuff), will there be a 
great influence in current users?

Thanks,
Guang Zhu

Hi,
simply switching to domain does not help you out about browsing 
problems, of course
some of the needed entries which you need to use will help you ( wins 
server etc ).

Read the chapters in the samba faqs about wins browsing dns,dhcp this 
will help you out.
You should also check the quality of your switches , routers, firewalls 
, nics etc
to pump up your network speed.
Regards

Guang Zhu schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a network spanning over 3 subnets, connected by routers 
> (approx. 150 Win 9X/NT/XP machines). Currently we are running a large 
> workgroup, and I am considering migrating it to a domain. Since the 
> users are always complaining about the browsing problem (long time in 
> connecting to share, slow in browsing etc), so I would like to know if 
> migrating to a domain will somhow help in the efficiency of browsing? 
> Besides, if I turn on the domain settings in the Samba server (i.e.  
> domain master = yes, domain logons = yes, and some create user/machine 
> & netlogon share stuff), will there be a great influence in current 
> users?
>
> Thanks,
> Guang Zhu
>
>