2 Windows XP problems: Part 2) Restricted network rights, ..

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pawn wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How can this be accomplished:
>
> On a WindowsXP workstation (SP1 or SP2), on a Windows NT 4.0 Server
> (SP6.0a) domain, how can a user be set up to be a regular domain user
> on the network, yet an administrator on the local workstation?
>
> I know this should be easy, but I have tried many different iterations
> of local and network usernames to no avail, the only way the local
> user could have total control over the workstation (update registry,
> etc.), was either to login to the local machine (not the domain) as
> an admin, or temporarily make them a domain admin.

Give their domain user whatever rights you want on the network..
Make that domain user (domain group) a member of the local "administrators"
group on the Workstation.

(BTW - not recommended. Most users should not be administrators.)

The two are mutually exclusive (workstation privs and domain privs.)

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