Re: Which local user accounts?

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From: Timothy Morris (tim_at_online.kingswoodhouse.e7even.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:40:42 -0000

As I explained in my first post she doesn't have a local account, just a
domain account. There's no way I'm giving any user Admin rights anywhere in
the chain!

I can't imagine her having to log off the whole time she's away.

Tim
"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz SBS Rocks [MVP] " <sbradcpa@pacbell.net> wrote
in message news:esZiTNf5EHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> On her computer, log in as the admin, control panel, users, flip that user
> to "administrator"
>
> If she'll be off the domain for a long time I think I'd not make her a
> domain user as you might run out of the "cached credentials" before she
> logs back into the domain.
>
> Timothy Morris wrote:
>
>> I run a small network (it is actually in a domestic house, but there are
>> a total of 8 client PCs, 2 of them remote. For simplicity reasons I don't
>> actually set up local user accounts on each of the machines, I just set
>> up all users as "mobile users" on the domain, which gives them he
>> equivalent of XP's "Restricted User" in terms of privileges on the client
>> machines.
>>
>> I'm just setting up a notebook for my niece and obviously she is going to
>> have to adjust things like power policies when she is travelling. Should
>> I use what used to be called secpol.msc to grant the privileges required
>> to all <domain name>\Domain Users group. The last thing I want is for her
>> to come back from Switzerland with the machine full of crap that she's
>> downloaded from the Internet, but at the same time I don't want her
>> enjoyment of what is a fantastic Notebook (Sony S2XP). Prompt answers
>> appreciated as I'm running out of time!
>>
>> Tim

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