Hi,
I’m using a little domain with 4 XP computers.
I want one user to install software on his PC witch rights does he minimal
need to do this. I don't want him to be a domain admin.

I already created a local user with the same name an made him local admin.
But this didn’t work.

Who can give me a suggestion?

Robert

Giro wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using a little domain with 4 XP computers.
> I want one user to install software on his PC witch rights does he
> minimal need to do this. I don't want him to be a domain admin.
>
> I already created a local user with the same name an made him local
> admin. But this didn't work.
>
> Who can give me a suggestion?

Well.. Power Users can install a lot of things.. But if you made his domain
user a member of the local administrators group of that machine - that would
definitely do it.

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Shenan,
I thought so but I cannot find this power user.
I don't see a local user created on the system.
An din the AD I tried to insert the machine_name/administrator but that
doesn't wordk.

Robert

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Giro wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using a little domain with 4 XP computers.
> > I want one user to install software on his PC witch rights does he
> > minimal need to do this. I don't want him to be a domain admin.
> >
> > I already created a local user with the same name an made him local
> > admin. But this didn't work.
> >
> > Who can give me a suggestion?
>
> Well.. Power Users can install a lot of things.. But if you made his domain
> user a member of the local administrators group of that machine - that would
> definitely do it.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Giro wrote:
> I thought so but I cannot find this power user.
> I don't see a local user created on the system.
> An din the AD I tried to insert the machine_name/administrator but
> that doesn't wordk.

Log into the local machine (that the user normally uses) as a Domain
Administrator.
Right-Click on My Computer and choose "Manage".
Expand "System Tools" --> "Local Users and Groups" --> "Groups".
Look on the right side of the panel.
Double click on the appropriate group (s) and add the user appropriately.

Add their DOMAIN account - not any local account you have created.

(It's the "administrators" group - not "adminnstrator" - Plural. And Power
Users should be there as long as this is Windows XP Professional - but you
mentioned domain - so it has to be if in the XP family (or superset.))

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MS-MVP
--
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Giro wrote:
> Hi,
> I’m using a little domain with 4 XP computers.
> I want one user to install software on his PC witch rights does he minimal
> need to do this. I don't want him to be a domain admin.
>
> I already created a local user with the same name an made him local admin.
> But this didn’t work.
>
> Who can give me a suggestion?
>
> Robert
>


Simply add the user's domain account to the local administrators group.


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