Workgroup to Domain

My company has two sites each with their own Windows 2003 Server. One site is set up as a Domain with each of the 8 PCs attached to the domain using the same userid (i know, bad, i'll fix). The domain is called oth.net.

The second site is setup as a workgroup with each of the 15 PCs attached to the server with a mapped drive back to the server. The workgroup is called dol.loc.

We want to establish DFS between the two sites so from what I have read the best practice is to have the DFS implemented between DCs. The two locations are connected via DSL but the amount of replication traffic should be <50MB each day.

• What is the best way to configure the two domains? Does the dol.loc need to be converted to a Domain named oth.net or does it matter?

• After converting the workgroup to a domain is it just a matter of copying each PCs profile to the new domain area or is there some automatic way to do this?

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Thanks for your help.

 

Hi

Do you need DFS only for file replication?

 

Yes. I need to make sure a .mdb file and some other files are in sync between the two locations.

 

In your case i would use robocopy or this one:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog