Re: Mapping a Drive from local machine account

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 07/01/04


Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:03:10 -0400

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:52:19 -0500, "Gale Coleman" <gcoleman@legalassist.org>
wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>We are using Windows 2000 pro machines on a Windows NT domain. One of the
>users has a domain account as a regular user. She needed a local machine
>account with administrative priveleges for one of the programs that she
>runs. How can I get a drive mapped to a domain share when she is logged
>into the local machine as administrator? I can search google, but I don't
>think I am using the correct terms as I am not finding anything relevant to
>my question.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gale
>

She should log on as the regular user and on the local machine, add her domain
account to the local administrators group.

net localgroup Administrators "DomainName\UserName" /ADD

She will be a normal user in the domain, but a local admin at the same time.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com



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