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When setting up WINDOWS 2K for the first time does therre need to be someone
assigned to be the administrator or can it just be a benign thing?
assigned to be the administrator or can it just be a benign thing?
Windows 2000 will ALWAYS create an Administrator account when
installed. This account is intended for use when you need to ... well,
administer ... the computer. Other users you create will be in the
more limited "User" class.
: :
: > Windows 2000 will ALWAYS create an Administrator account when
: > installed. This account is intended for use when you need to ... well,
: > administer ... the computer. Other users you create will be in the
: > more limited "User" class.
: >
:
: on that note...
:
: if i have two computers, A and B
:
: how would i give access to computer A from B or vice versa if they both
: have admin as the user acct?
They are not both administrator. They are computera\administrator and
computerb\administrator.
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: @tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
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: > : >: : >:
: >: > Windows 2000 will ALWAYS create an Administrator account when
: >: > installed. This account is intended for use when you need to ...
well,
: >: > administer ... the computer. Other users you create will be in
: >: > the more limited "User" class.
: >: >
: >:
: >: on that note...
: >:
: >: if i have two computers, A and B
: >:
: >: how would i give access to computer A from B or vice versa if they
: >: both have admin as the user acct?
: >
: > They are not both administrator. They are computera\administrator
: > and computerb\administrator.
: >
:
: but when i try to add user computerb\administrator, it says I can't
: have those kinds of characters "\" in a name...any suggestions
How are you trying to add it?
Yep - don't do that! You can't add "computer-a\username" to Computer
B, and you don't need to. Just add "username" (whatever user name you
desire) to both computers with the same password. That should do the
trick nicely.
Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you're misunderstanding me.
What I'm saying is that if you want "Administrator" to be able to
access information and shares on both Computer A and Computer B then
you need to go to each computer and make sure that there's a user
"Administrator" with the same password on both computers. If both are
in the same workgroup that should fix the problem.
You can have as many administrators on a computer as you want by
assigning any user that you want to be an administrator as a member of
the Administrators group on that computer.
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