Win XP logging to WIn 2003 server

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Hi to all need some help on domain issues.

My company start to roll out Win XP, and they also setup server 2003,
whenever they login to the domain, they became the normal user of their PC,
they can't install or edit some of the files in their PC error msg was that
they doesn't have the right to do that. I am the IT helpdesk in this company
and i had to work like hell to fix this issue. System engineer simply say it
is the system setting.

When a normal user login to Domain, they became the normal user on their
local PC, even i had set them as the administrator. Never had this problem
when they are using Win 98.

Please help me on this issue.

Thanks in advanced.

Jacob(Sad helpdesk).
 
Hi Jacob,
I had this as well, this is how I solved the issue:

What you need to do is go to:

Right click My Computer, choose the Advanced tab.

Under User Profiles click the Settings button.

In the User Profiles window, below the list of user accounts, you will see
"To create new user accounts, open User Accounts in Control Panel. Click the
underlined User Accounts in that line to open a User Accounts window in
which you will be able to create a new user.

Choose Add, enter the user name and domain name (your Win 2003 server domain
name), click next.

Now you will like this, choose the level of access for your user. The
"other" selection will allow you to select administrator, it may already be
showing. You may be prompted to enter an authorised domain user for creating
new accounts, especially if you have used an administrator account only
known to the local machine. eg machine name is MYPC then a local account
will show as MYPC\jacob who is an administrator. After creating the new
account you will also see an account MYDOMAIN\jacob for example.

When logging in you will now be given a choice to login to the local
machine, or the domain (assuming that the machine is now part of the
domain).

If your machine is still part of an old workgroup you may wish to change it
to be part of the domain to be able to take advantage of additional
benefits.

Hope this helps.

Regards
 
Thanks Terry for replying to my SOS

I have actually done that but what i need is the user able to login to the
domain and yet is the administrator of his PC.

Reasons: 1. When user is using Outlook he will require to alter some of the
..dat file
example: frmcrache.dat

2. User might need to install softwares from the server but
they can't do
that as they are not the admin of the PC.

Thanks a lot man.
 
Hi Jacob,

Go back to Computer Management/Users then the User properties. Under the
Member Of tab, check the user is a member of the administrators group. You
can add the group from there.

You must be logged in as an administrator on the local machine to be able to
do this.

Regards
 
Hi Jacob,

Another way is to right click My Computer and choose Properties | Advanced
tab | User Profiles and click the Settings button. Take the option to open
User Accounts in the control panel, click the underlined words User
Accounts. In the next window you can see all accounts on the machine and
view their properties. In the Properties page you can select the Group
Membership, the option marked as Other will allow you to choose the
administrators group.

Hope this fixes it for you.
Regards
 
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