Re: Username and groups in Active Directory

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From: Anders Eriksson (anders.eriksson_at_morateknikutveckling.se)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:31:30 +0200

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:01:14 +0200, Günter Prossliner wrote:

>> This has worked perfectly until I got a user that is on a LAN using Active
>> Directory. The current user doesn't exist as a local user and can't be
>> added to the local group.
>
> Why can't you add a user to the local group? Domain users can be added to
> local groups as well. Or are you working on a domain controller?
>
As usual I have left out some information ;-)

The computer I tested on was not attached to the LAN. The user still used
his domain name when i logged in. I assume that Active Directory keeps a
local copy...

In local users his name didn't exist and when I tried to add a user to the
local group it didn't display his name in the list of names that could be
added.

To get around this I added a local user with the same name as the domain
user and added this user to the local group. Then everything worked!

However, since I don't know anything about Active Directory, I don't know
if this will cause any trouble...

The computer is running Windows 2000

// Anders

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