Re: add user in more than one group through user accounts in control panel

Hi Nightowl,

I appreciate your reply and glad to inform you that its worked fine even in
domain environment. I again pleasure to convey my thanks.

Though it might looks unimportant for any readers, your reply is much useful
when we get in trouble or problems while we adding a user in multiple groups.
Your command worked successfully for domain users also.

I just given as you mentioned in your reply as the user is domain user and
when i noticed in user accounts it taken that name as a domain user and
successfully added.

Thanks again. By the way, may i get your personal email id so i will mail
you any other doubts as in future if i post anything here in the forum, it
might be unseen by you.

Thanks again.

Regards
Chandra


Nightowl wrote:
Hi chandra

Yes, I think I understand.

The quickest way to add a user to several groups, if you don't want to
use Local Users and Groups, is to open a command window and use the net
localgroup command.

net localgroup "power users" MarkBouch /add
net localgroup Debuggers MarkBouch /add

You can create the user account in the first place this way, too:
net user [username] [password] /add /active:yes

Unless you have a security policy in place that forbids this, Power
Users can manage local groups, so your users could add themselves to
Debuggers this way without you having to log in as admin and do it for
them. However, I think in your first post you said they also needed to
be members of the Administrators group? If that's so, that's something
they can't do themselves; only an admin has that power.

Having said all that though, it may still be necessary for the user to
log off and on again for the account changes to become active. I'm not
on a domain here so I can't check. I'm sorry I can't help more, but I'm
not an expert on this -- perhaps someone else may be able to help more.

gchandrujs via WindowsKB.com <u25485@uwe.?.invalid> wrote on Thu, 6 Sep
2007:

Suppose if an domain user (MarkBouch) needs to be added in this pc in both
the power users group and Debuggers group in that pc. How can i do that when
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Please help.


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