Well, a local account wouldn't be a domain user for one. I think a more
common question is the different between authenticated users and Everyone.
AfaIk, the difference there is that guest accounts are not part of
authenticated users, but they are part of the Everyone group.
Domain Users are all users in an Active Directory domain. When you create a
domain user account it is automatically a member of the group.
Authenticated Users is a builtin local group representing anything that has
authenticated to use the local machine. It could be a local user or domain
user. Critically it also includes computer accounts that have been
authenticated. Domain policies by default are applied to Authenticated
Users, which includes computers.
When you give Read access to a software library, to enable software to be
installed, you would give it to Authenticated Users so that the machine
System account could install software at startup without a logged on user.
Anthony
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