Domains, Workgroups, and Win2k Oh my!

I was wondering if there were any MCSE's out there who might could help me out on this one. I work on a rather large single domain controller network with a moderate amount of Win2k machines. The rest of the computers are Win 95/98 and are configured into workgroups, but all are logged into the same domain. Is there anyway possible to configure a WinNT/2k machine to be a member of a domain and have it show up in a workgroup different from that particular domain? i.e. Log onto DOMAIN1 but then have the workgroup show under network neighborhood as Management. I can't find anything that even remotely resembles this option. I can handle having a large number of people in workgroup DOMAIN1, but it would be nice to have people in their respective departmental workgroups. Thanks for any help!

 

With NT / 2000, you are in a workgroup or a domain. That will always be the same no matter what. However under Win2k Active directory, you can configure Organizational Units. You can then assign computers and users to the OU's. When users are looking for users or computer/printers, they can then search by OU's instead of workgroup/domain.

 

Well - you asked for MCSE response and you for sure got it.

For some non-MCSE input here though:

1. It always bugged me too that a nice organizational tool that you got with Win9x just wasn't available with NT. Glad M$ decided to give it back (under a different name) with a Win2K network.

2. However, you didn't specify if your DCs are NT or 2K. To do as Bursley said with the organizational units, you will have to have AD available and for that you gotta have a 2K PDC.

OTOH, there are so many goodies available with AD, now might be a great time to switch over if you can. Most are designed for huge WANs (where the domain model just isn't adequate) but there are enough for smaller setups (flat LANs and small WANs) to make it worth the effort.