double login domains

From: David Jones (kk7gw@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/21/02 

From: "David Jones" <kk7gw@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:37:36 -0700

It's the exact same way as in Windows 2000.
With your local Administrator account:

Open Administrative Tools->Computer Management.

Find Local Users and Groups and expand it.
Click on "Groups".
Find Administrators on the right side of the window and
double-click it.
Click "Add"
Enter your domain account in the form of either
MYDOMAINNAME\MYACCOUNTNAME or
Myaccountname@my.activedirectory.domain (the first
version is more likely what you want).

Click ok.
Log off.
Log back on using your domain account.

You will now have local Admin privs on the machine.

Since XP is based on Windows 2000, it is a bit of a
difference from 95/98/ME, but the majority of options are
in the same place as in Windows 2000.

>-----Original Message-----
>When I'm at the XP login screen Im given a drop down
combo box with options
>to log on to 1) the domain AAAA 2) my PC (a "domain"
called BBBB)
>
>If I log on to the PC "domain" (BBBB), Im able to act as
administrator for
>my PC. I lose those local admin priviliges if I log onto
our network domain
>(AAAA).
>
>XP is bloody awful, you cant find anything anywhere.
Strongly related items
>are split up all over and its a mess. I go to network
settings yet the
>domain and password is set from system properties. It
took 15 mins to find
>this screen to start with.
>Help file is useless.
>
>At first it looked as tho there were 2 users because
when I logged on to the
>PC, I was using my network name without a password. When
I logged onto the
>network I was using the same name with a real network
password. I thought
>that might be the cause of the problems .
>
>How do I get rid of this dual login option and be able
to log on to the
>domain and have full admin rights on my local PC too.
>
>--
>Claire
>
>
>.
>

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