Re: Local admin domain user

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com)
Date: 04/07/03 

From: jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com (Jeff Cochran)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 20:17:38 GMT

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:33:11 -0700, "Michael N"
<kindlydank@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I know this problem has been addressed several times, but
>the answers given aren't fixing my problem.
>
>I need the users to have admin rights to their workstation
>(XP pro) while still remaining standard domain users. I
>have tried creating a local user with the same username as
>their domain account, granting it administrator rights and
>giving it the same password... no help.

Login to XP as the local admin or the domain admin (which has local
admin rights be default if you joined a domain...). Add the domain
group "Domain Users" to the administrators group. Done.

Jeff

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