Can a stand alone server trust a domain?

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In short... No... In order to access the AD accounts in another domain,
the server must be in a child domain of the parent AD domain, and/or must
have the appropriate trust relationship established. If the server is a
stand alone and is not part of a domain, this is not possible. If you have
to login to the server using a local system account and not a Domain level
account, there is no way to access domain level resources without providing
credentials for the domain in which the accounts reside...

HTH
Ozone
"Matthew Speed" <mspeed@mspeed.net> wrote in message
news:upgje0d6hc9ahklrtosj7alsod81mt593c@4ax.com...
> I'm not quite certain if this is possible but here goes...
>
> I have a customer that has a dedicated 2k3 server at a server hosting
> company. The machine is installed as a stand alone server and is not
> running active directory and it has to stay that way. They do run
> their own AD forest at their corporate headquarters.
>
> They would like me to develop a web application that uses the windows
> security in their internal network for resource authorization.
>
> Is there any way include the groups/users in the internal domain in
> the user/group scheme on the stand alone server?