Question : Downgrading from a domain to a workgroup

i know this sounds silly..but we are downgrading frm a domain to a workgroup ..and i am not sure what the repurcussions will be on shared resources..
i have shared drives with explicit permissions and group level access.
i need to figure out how to have basic share level permissions..when i downgrade without compromising too much security.
just folder sharing with passwords and restricted access.
running windows 2000 professsionals and XP professionals..

any help is much appreciated.

Answer : Downgrading from a domain to a workgroup

thanks glad i could help. What i would do is on your file server create local groups and local users and shove em in the groups who u want to have access to particular files and folders. make sure the users you put on the local file server also reside on the workstations that are part of the workgroup. So you would assign each workstation a local username and password depending whose workstation it is and then assign em the proper permissions on your file server. Make sure that you set passwords to never expire on their local accounts hence, if they change the password well the user will get a loginscreen when trying to access his files/folders or any other resource he has access to. besides that, i dont see much else you can do. If the users were using exchange and you kept their mailbox on their individual workstations pst files well you dont have to do much with that since they will still have their old e-mails and such. might just have to reconfigure where they synchronize to get their e-mails hence the exchange server will be no more.