VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF How to Connecting to a Domain and Workgroup

How to Connecting to a Domain and Workgroup

Connecting to a domain or workgroup in Windows 10 and 11 is an essential task for many organizations. It enables you to access shared resources, such as files, printers, and network drives. Here is how you can connect to a domain or workgroup in Windows 10 and 11.

Connecting to a Domain:

Step 1: Click the Start button and click Settings.

Step 2: In the Settings app, click on the Accounts icon.

Step 3: In the left-hand menu, select "Access work or school."

Step 4: Click the "Connect" button under the "Set up for an organization" section.

Step 5: Enter your domain credentials (username and password) and click "Next."

Step 6: Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the setup.

Connecting to a Workgroup:

Step 1: Click the Start button and click Settings.

Step 2: In the Settings app, click on the "Network & Internet" icon.

Step 3: In the left-hand menu, select "Ethernet" or "Wi-Fi," depending on your connection type.

Step 4: Click the "Change adapter options" button.

Step 5: Right-click on the network adapter you are using and select "Properties."

Step 6: Click on the "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" option and click the "Properties" button.

Step 7: Click the "Use the following IP address" option and enter the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for your workgroup network.

Step 8: Click the "OK" button to save your changes.

In conclusion, connecting to a domain or workgroup in Windows 10 and 11 is a straightforward process. By following the steps outlined above, you can easily connect to a domain or workgroup and access shared resources.

Here we are at our Windows 10 desktop. Welcome to our conversation about the Homegroups and Workgroups. Let's start first talking about a workgroup. Now, to get started, we're here in Windows 10. I'm going to click on my Start button and we're going to search for a Control Panel and when we find Control Panel, we're going to click on it and we're going to open up the Control Panel. In the Control Panel, I'm a head over to System and Security because this is where a lot of our options are going to be. And we're going straight over to the System. When I click on System, we could check out some info about our system here. But what I want to focus on, right now is this word Workgroup. I'm going to click on that Change Settings button right here on the right side of Domain, Name and Workgroup settings. And when this opens up, we get some options. We can do something about Network ID or to rename the computer or change its domain or workgroup, click Change. Well, before we click that button let's go a little bit deeper to what is a domain or workgroup. So, as we chat about it. Workgroup versus domain. What is a workgroup? Well, a workgroup, it's really a very simple network set up. Each user is able to control their own username and password on their machine and is also able to control what files and folders and even printers and other external devices can be shared on a network. With a workgroup, it's really meant to be a peer-to-peer style setup. There's no dedicated server that's going to have files stored on it. So, workgroup and domain. Domain is the idea of having a network domain and with this network domain you're going to have a server. And the server can be your centralized place to house files and folders even attached to printers. This server as well can control all your username and password accounts, where a user can travel anywhere in the business sit down at any computer and log in with their credentials which are being logged in on this server. Now, the idea of having a domain versus a workgroup. The domain is going to be the centralized control for those files and folders where they're password-protected on the server and not having everything locally saved on every single individual machine. This is much easier to manage in the long run. It's just a little more complex to set up than our original idea of just a work group where users control their own files, their own folders, their own user accounts and their own attached devices plugged into their machines. So, let's go back on over to our Windows 10 machine and go a little bit further in this idea of workgroup settings. So, on our Windows 10 machine, if we wanted to join a work group and be able to easily share files and folders with other computers, we would go ahead and click this Change button. And we'll find is by default your computer has a name that identifies it on the network. Also, the default workgroup we see here in Windows 10 is just WORKGROUP. And here it is in all caps. And as long as you have the same workgroup name on all your Windows 10 clients, they're going to be able to see each other and possibly share files and folders, possibly because it depends on the permissions that are set. So, if we wanted to change it. I can go ahead and change this to work domain. But it's going to tell me to do something after I click Okay. And what it wants, it's going to want you to do a reboot. So, welcome to the work group domain, WORKGROUP. Click OK and yeah, you've got to reboot for that to take effect. Now, it's not a good idea for you to change that unless you need to. Keep it as the default of workgroup. Now, there's another thing we want to talk about which is going to be Homegroup. So, I'm going to go ahead and let this Windows 10 OS reboot. And while that's rebooting it's time for us to head to Windows 7. Ooh! Well, with Windows 7 and Windows 8 and also the early release of Windows 10 they all supported something known as Homegroup. Now, the idea here of homegroup is supposed to be an easy method for us to share files, folders and guess what, attached printers with other people on your same local network. This idea of homegroup, also was not really meant for business. It did beautifully for Windows 7 Windows 8 and then the beginning of Windows 10 it was there. But then it's been removed in Windows 10. So, what I can do in my Windows 7 machine here, is I can choose what I want to share with other people on my homegroup. After I choose those items, I can click Next and it's going to go through the process of attempting to share these with other people on the same homegroup. And the only restriction is this simple password. So, I would go ahead and click Print Password and Instructions and then I would have other computers attached to the same homegroup and utilize this same password so that we can all be joined and shared our files folders and even our attached printers. So, take some time and practice with your workgroup domain and homegroup settings and get comfy with it. So, you can become that IT professional.

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