Section 23.4. Local Accounts on a Domain Computer: Business Enterprise Ultimate


23.4. Local Accounts on a Domain Computer: Business ¢ Enterprise ¢ Ultimate

When your computer is a member of a corporate domain, the controls you use to create and manage user accounts are quite a bit different.

In this case, when you choose Start Control Panel, you see a category called "User Accounts instead of "User Accounts and Family Safety." And the option called "Add or remove user accounts" on a workgroup PC is now called "Give other users access to this computer."

When you click that option, you see the dialog box shown in Figure 23-7. The layout is different, but the idea is the same: you can see all of the accounts on the computer.

This dialog box lets you create local accountsaccounts stored only on your computer, and not on the corporate domain machinefor existing citizens of the domain.

Why would you need a local account, if all of your files and settings are actually stored elsewhere on the network? Because certain tasks , like installing drivers for new hardware, require you to log on using a local Administrator account.


Note: This business of creating a local account that corresponds to an existing domain account isn't quite the same thing as creating a completely new account for a completely new person. For that purpose, see the following pages.

23.4.1. Creating a Local Account for a Domain Member

When you click the Add button (Figure 23-7), an Add New User Wizard appears. It lets you specify the person's name and the name of the domain that already stores his account. (You can also click the Browse button to search your domain for a specific person.)

Figure 23-7. A Vista computer that's a member of a domain has a more detailed User Account dialog box. Instead of creating new accounts on your local machine, these controls let you give other people on your domain the ability to log onto your computer locally (that is, in person, rather than from across the network) .


When you click Next, the wizard prompts you to specify what level of access you want to grant this person. You have three choices:

  • Standard user . This person will be allowed to change certain system settings and install programs that don't affect Windows settings for other users.

  • Administrator . This person gets the same privileges as a local administrative user.

  • Other . If you choose this option, you'll be allowed to specify what local group this person belongs to, as described later in this chapter.

Once the account you selected appears in the user accounts list, that person is now ready to log into your PC using the local account.




Windows Vista. The Missing Manual
Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596528272
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 284
Authors: David Pogue

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