Can't add domain users to a local admin group

[Elaine Koyama]

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On a Win XP Pro tablet, I am unable to add a domain user to the local admin
group. When I go to Local Users and Groups and open the Administrators
Group and press the add button, I'm unable to choose my domain in the
Locations field and thus unable to choose my domain user. It only displays
the local computer name. How can I choose a location that is the domain
rather than the local computer?

Thanks,
Scot
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[Shenan Stanley]

On a Win XP Pro tablet, I am unable to add a domain user to the local
admin group. When I go to Local Users and Groups and open the
Administrators Group and press the add button, I'm unable to choose
my domain in the Locations field and thus unable to choose my domain
user. It only displays the local computer name. How can I choose a
location that is the domain rather than the local computer?

Assuming the PC is a member of said domain, have you tried "net localgroup"
at the command line?

For example..

net localgroup administrators "DOMAIN\username" /add

or

net localgroup "Power Users" "DOMAIN\username" /add

If you then want to see who is a member of the administrators group - from
the command line - you can do this:

net localgroup administrators