Can't set local admin rights on domain

From: David Jones (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/06/03 

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:18:06 -0800

On each XP machine, using a local administrator account
(or domain admin):

Open Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer
Management, expand local users and groups, click groups.
Double-click Administrators, click Add, and add the
domain account(s) or group(s) you want to have local
admin rights on the machine.

You have two options if you need to do this on lots of
machines - either give the user of the machine the local
Admin password and have them add their domain accounts to
the local admin group, or you can break the machines into
OU's in the domain, and push out a group policy setting
the accounts or groups.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a Windows XP pro workstations that is logging on
>to a Windows 2000 domain. The users were set with domain
>user rights when first setup, this don't allow them
admin
>rights on local machine. Now I have purchased a new
>software package that requires users to have admin
rights
>on the local machine. I can't figure out how to change
>this. Help.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark
>.
>

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