Re: local administrator

From: Paul Adare (padare@newsguy.com)
Date: 05/31/02 

From: Paul Adare <padare@newsguy.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:32:53 -0400

In article <a59e01c208df$d1422f20$39ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA08>,
robert.jenkin@surecomp-usa.com says...
> The following (posts) suggest adding the user account to
> the administrator group. I have tried that and it does not
> work. That does not give them admin rights on their local
> machine.
>

Actually, it does. An account, be it local or domain, that is a member
of the local administrators group, is a local administrator on the local
machine.

Rather than saying the posts that answered your question are wrong,
because they are not, you'll get further if you describe exactly what
problem you're trying to solve. 

-- 
Paul Adare
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

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