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Topic Title: grouping users in LAN
Topic Summary: upgrading LAN layout
Created On: 10/06/2009 04:02 AM

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prodigyson

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Hi,
My office has a layout that I need to change as I feel that’s improper and inefficient.

Current layout of office (workstations run windows-2000-pro):

There are 80 workstations available (in the same premise) across 4-LANs that are disconnected from each other. 4 LANs belong to 4 different business clients. In order to impose security policy so that they are unable to share data the idea of disconnected LANs was implemented.
(1) LAN-1, LAN-2, LAN-3 have 20 workstations each arranged in Workgroup and are peer-to-peer.
(2) LAN-4 has 20 computers (19-workstations & 1-Win2k-Advanced-Server). The server runs as a Domain Controller (DHCP-server). The users here login with their username-password and domain-name “XYZ” and start using their resources.

What I wish to do:

I wish to have only one single LAN with 79Workstations and 1 Server (Domain Controller, DHCP server). I wish to separate our 4 business clients logically (not by disconnected LAN). I want to make sure that security policy is equally implemented and data sharing is restricted within business and not beyond.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Regards,
Prodigy
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 11/03/2009 12:35 PM
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Wanderer

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Guess no one knew about VLANS. This is what you use to provide segmented networking yet have a central server provider. You still need to include this as part of your redesign.

You also need to consider the liability you are taking on. You will be responsible for each business's data and security. Your server goes down and they can't work or access their data....

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