Question for the IT minded among you. I have several machines at home, all of them with some particular use to me. I want to be able to have my own domain at home so that I can exactly set up accounts and permissions for everybody.
Basically I want to be able to share confidential information in my home network so that I can get access to it from all the machines (either documents or shared OneNote notebooks), and I don't want to rely exclusively on the password protection of my wireless router as my main line of defense against people joining the network. I'm vaguely familiar with the concept of workgroup, but I get the impression that it's nowhere near as controllable as an Active Directory domain.
I can get hold of server 2008 or server 2008 R2 no problem, but I'm more worried about how complicated the process of creating and managing a domain is. Does anybody have experience with it that they could share?
Basically I want to be able to share confidential information in my home network so that I can get access to it from all the machines (either documents or shared OneNote notebooks), and I don't want to rely exclusively on the password protection of my wireless router as my main line of defense against people joining the network. I'm vaguely familiar with the concept of workgroup, but I get the impression that it's nowhere near as controllable as an Active Directory domain.
I can get hold of server 2008 or server 2008 R2 no problem, but I'm more worried about how complicated the process of creating and managing a domain is. Does anybody have experience with it that they could share?