anyway to make a 98se PC a domain controller?

[aUt0eXebat]

i have a little home LAN. I want to set my good pc as a server (domain controller) and have my other computer get files from it. any way i can do this with 98se? or should i get windows 2000 server?

 

[bex0rs]

There's no need for a file server to be a domain controller. In the most general sense, a domain controller centralizes logons / authentication for your network so you don't have to worry about setting up user accounts / share permissions for all of your computers. It's pretty silly to have a domain controller on a 2-3 computer network unless you really want to learn something. Oh, and AFAIK, there is no way to make 98se a "domain controller."

~bex0rs

 

[aUt0eXebat]

yea thats what i thought, oh well

 

[RossGr]

You neither need nor want a Domain Controller when networking Win98 systems. The Domain and Backup Domain controllers are functions of a Win NT network, they come with NT Server. For a home network, which consists of a few computers(<10?), you want to set up a peer to peer network.

I have a 4 system peer to peer network sharing my cable modem through switch/router. I ran for over a year through a 4 port hub with ICS on dial up and before that I conneceted 2 systems with a crossover cable. If you only have 2 systems this is the cheapest way to go. A NIC in each computer connected by a CAT 5 crossover cable.

There is a lot of information available on the web for setting this up. I have always started from the assumption that Win98 is designed with idiots in mind. So if you take the miminilist approach you can have a very function Network with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) without even knowing what you are doing.