Re: Users Logging on to Domains

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and I reckon they're (these IT techs who feel the need to be off the domain)
idiots.

Unless their laptops are members of the 'visited' domain it matters in what
way whether they are members of a foreign workgroup or domain?

The OP's problem is that either he or his users think for some reason there
is an advantage logging onto a local user account rather than the standard
domain account. The only local accounts domain member PC's under my control
have are, say, where the user takes it home and wants to allow his kids to
use it, the user always uses his domain account but local accounts are
created for the kids.

I have several non-domain PC's (VMWare test systems) reporting to and
totally under the control of WSUS on my SBS, it's a simple regedit on the
PC, no server change required. (OK. must test this on R2, which my SBS aint.
Their existence in WSUS may lead to 'Green Check' loss, not sure.)
http://www.supergumby.dyndns.org/wsusreg.htm is the note I keep about it.

"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Many IT technicians will deliberately configure and login to their work
laptops as a non-domain user, to allow easier portability going from one
customer (server) to the next.

What do you lose? Well, just some things off the top of my head ... WSUS
does not see non-domain PC's; you lose the ability to push down group
policy changes to such systems; any Microsoft or 3rd party apps that work
on validating an AD domain user won't be able to do so.

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"John F Kappler" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I thought I understood this until ......

All our users are registered as users on the SBServer.

All their PCs are also added and listed.

If you go to a user PC, you log in as the Username, and the Domain
"XXXXX".

All works fine, EXCEPT one of the users doesn't do the above! They
login as the Username, but instead of the Domain they anve an entry of
"AA99 (This Computer)" - Its the name of the PC.

All the server applications work as normal, they send and receive
e-mails, they access the internet, the network attached storage, etc.
etc. In fact, if I hadn't have been logging on to their PC as
Administrator to resolve a device problem, I wouldn't have noticed the
difference.

I've resisted changing the logon to use the domain name cos I'm fairly
certain it will create a new user and I'll have to move across all
their files, settings, defaults, etc.

But it does lead me to ask the question, what does a Domain user get
that this person doesn't?

TIA,

JohnK




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