User logs on but not in AD

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I have a bizaar issue - I have a user that signs onto the network with
admin privileges but the user is not in the AD users continer.

The user has a PC call "abcmachine" she logs onto the machine as a local
administator but has Domain access, how?

tia

Jonathan
 
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jonathan said:
I have a bizaar issue - I have a user that signs onto the network
with admin privileges but the user is not in the AD users continer.

The user has a PC call "abcmachine" she logs onto the machine as a
local administator but has Domain access, how?

tia

Jonathan
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If her user account is spelled the same as an AD account with the same
password, that user will be able to access AD resources based on that
account. I do it all the time here on my network. I log in locally as an
identical admin account (same password) and access everything.

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Ace

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Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
Right.... That' how we set up workstations with local logons but still
provide drive mapping. You do have to use the userid
"<DOMAIN.LOCAL>"\<USERID>" , though, instead of just "<USERID>"...
 
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Hank Arnold said:
Right.... That' how we set up workstations with local logons but still
provide drive mapping. You do have to use the userid
"<DOMAIN.LOCAL>"\<USERID>" , though, instead of just "<USERID>"...
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In some cases, you would need to do that, such as if you already have a
mapped drive (an open session), and you try to access something else in teh
domain by a start/run/UNC path, you may need to use the domain\user method
to access it due to the conflicting credentials.

Most cases, it will work either way.


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Ace

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