What is a member server?
in Active Directory server roles, computers that function as
servers within a domain can have one of two roles: member server or
domain controller. A member server is a computer that runs an
operating system in the Windows 2000 Server family or the Windows
Server 2003 family, belongs to a domain, and is not a domain
controller. Member servers typically function as the following
types of servers: file servers, application servers, database
servers, Web servers, certificate servers, firewalls and
remote-access servers.