isitreal - 8:30 pm on Aug 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

most stuff I've been taught and read suggests that 10 users or so is about the highest you want to run as a workgroup, after that a server is recommended, it's easier to join users to a domain than manually adding each user to the group on the non-server server.

However, running a server is a pain, it's a lot more complicated than running a simple shared file box on a workgroup, things break, network stuff breaks, configurations break, you have to set up network based time for all the machines to keep them synchronized, ad nauseum. But it's a bullet you might have to bite, just don't assume that the local geek can fix your problems as easily any more, you might need to get a real network admin if you don't have one, at least a part time one.