Administrative rights on local Windows XP box

[Guest]

We have laptops that are deployed in several location, which needs
re-baselined after the job is done and get it ready for the next job. We use
a hard drive cloning system to burn several hard drive at a time. After the
hard drive has been re-baselined and installed in the computer we change the
computer name and then re-join the domain. The problem is when you log into
the domain with admin rights using the laptop and need to load print drivers
or service packs the laptop says you dont have administrator rights. We have
found a work around by logging onto the laptop locally and add your
domainname/username to the administrator properties of the local computer.
Is there another solution or something we are doing wrong? This should not
happen when you have admin rights on the domain.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

We have laptops that are deployed in several location, which needs
re-baselined after the job is done and get it ready for the next job. We use
a hard drive cloning system to burn several hard drive at a time. After the
hard drive has been re-baselined and installed in the computer we change the
computer name and then re-join the domain. The problem is when you log into
the domain with admin rights using the laptop and need to load print drivers
or service packs the laptop says you dont have administrator rights. We have
found a work around by logging onto the laptop locally and add your
domainname/username to the administrator properties of the local computer.
Is there another solution or something we are doing wrong?

There's no solution, and you're doing nothing wrong; this is normal
behavior.

This should not
happen when you have admin rights on the domain.

That would depend upon how your specific domain is configured. Or it
may be that you're not adding domain admins to the local administrator
group when adding the machines to the domain.



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[Guest]

Bruce,

Thank you for your response and we will look into the domain setup a little
closer. For right now the domainname/username added to the admin properties
works!

Thanks again!