Re: cannot add local user to local group

Hello coder_2007,

Just to clarify. One local user account "test" and one domain user "test" ? You add "test" from domain or local, to the local group "Administrators" ?
The point is, you have two totally different useraccounts with the same name. Every user object, doesn't matter if domain account or local, has a specific unique Security identifier (SID). So you have to check if the account is member of the domain or the local user account.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hi,

I have a similar issue, I create a local user with a user name the
same as our domain, however once I add that user to Administrators
group, the user doesn't appear in Administrators group and the "Member
of" tab is empty. When I attempt to add this local user to
Administrator group again, I get error message that the user is
already a member of group "Administrators" but I can't see the user in
that group. Is there some sort of conflict of a local user with
domain?

Thanks.

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

Hello Jan,

To come more clear please post the complete domaine name. Also in a
domain you normally work not with local accounts, you work with
domain user accounts, please give some more infos why you will use
local accounts and also why they have to be local admins.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers
no rights.
if we try to add the local computer account 'ABC' to the local
administrators group on a Windows XP PC we receive the message "
'ABC' is already a member of group 'Administrators', which is not
the case as the user has no administrative rights. on Windows 2000
we do not receive a similar message but the user is not added to the
appropriate group. if we check the group memberships of user 'ABC'
there are no entries.

This happens on every computer that is a member of our active
directory. i assume that this might be a problem as our active
directory netbios domain name is also 'ABC'.

Any ideas how to fix this?



.

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