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[ECF]

I certainly can request it to product management as an added feature from customers and if they approve it they may implement this feature in future firmware updates.

[hilaireg]

Hi,

From your post, I'm understanding that you have two (2) 'workgroups' with multitudes of computers in them - your 'workgroups' are:

Workgroup 1 = MOG-Exchange
Workgroup 2 = TOG-Exchange


You'd have to provide a little more background as to why you've created two (2) 'workgroups'; that said, I'll assume it's because you wanted to keep various groups of computers isolated from each other.

Few networking pointers when it comes to 'workgroups':

1) Members of a 'workgroup' cannot see members of another 'workgroup' but can connect to each other using explicit mapping (ex: net use * \\xxxxx\yyy) or via TCP/IP (ex: \\###.###.###.###)

2) Members of a 'workgroup' cannot connect to members in another 'workgroup' if the other 'workgroup' is not on the same IP/Subnet (ex: 1: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, 2: yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy)

3) Members of a 'workgroup' cannot connect to members in another 'workgroup' if separated by a gateway unless a 'complex' routing device facilitates the interconnections.

4) Alternating the name of your DNS would cause connectivity issues as 'workgroup' devices (aka NetBIOS) traditionally broadcast over 255.255.255.255.


As for A/D integration; would be nice if the DNS-323 supported A/D integration as has been introduced in f/w 1.02 of the DNS-343.  Not convinced though that it would address some of the DNS security exposures that have been posted of late.

Cheers,

[yo_adrian_eh]

I've made my user name and pwd on the 323 the same as my PC & Laptop profile name and pwd (I use both a PC Win XP and a laptop Vista). Since making that change I'm no longer prompted for a password when connecting/browsing to the 323 from either machine. I got fed up with the authentication each time and figured I'd just try it and see what happens...it works! I put the 323 on the same workgroup, so all machines on my LAN are on a single workgroup.