Create a new records structure
Active Directory cannot be installed on systems that aren't Microsoft. However, you can have Active Directory functionality on non-Microsoft systems by using third party software such as Samba, which runs in a Unix/Linux environment and provides the Active Directory functionality.
A user account. Without a user account object defined in the active directory a user cannot log on and gain access to network resources.
No a user defined in active directory cannot access a shared drive if they are not part of the domain. You will need to set them up as a user on your computer.
This is because AD-integrated zones cannot function as secondary zones...
Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
No, a drive cannot be a sub directory but it can be a root directory.
Without Active Directory the DHCP server cannot be authorized, and could therefore be considered a "rogue". What A.D do for a DHCP Server that it authorised to DHCP server to give an Ip add. to clients and authorised for update the DNS PTR records. and when we won't authorised DHCP with Active Directory it won't be update the the PTR records and won't be update the IP add. in DNS records.
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no you cannot install AD in Xp system but there is standalone ADAM which you can install on xp system which has few features of AD
Active Directory Users and Computers is a snap-in. A snap-in cannot be started from a command line or from "Start" "run" it has to be started from an MMC (Microsoft Management Console). If you do not know how to create a Custom MMC let me know an I will walk you through those steps. you can use dsa.msc
No, you cannot restore AD from 2003 to 2008 directly. You need to upgrade the AD infrastructure to 2008 (schema update).
This is a display of file permissions. In particular, it means:drwxrw-r-- - The specified object is a directory, not a filedrwxrw-r-- - The file / directory can be read by its ownerdrwxrw-r-- - The file / directory can be modified by its ownerdrwxrw-r-- - The file / directory can be executed as a binary by its ownerdrwxrw-r-- - The file / directory can be read by members of the specified groupdrwxrw-r-- - The file / directory can be modified by members of the specified group.drwxrw-r-- - The file / directory cannot be executed by members of the specified group.drwxrw-r-- - The file / directory can be read by others not in the group.drwxrw-r-- - The file / directory cannot be modified by others not in the group.drwxrw-r-- - The file / directory cannot be executed by others not in the group.