Have I lost my Mind? Local admin user setup

[Marcus Smaby]

I have setup a number of WinXp Pro workstations on our domain, but now I
have gone senile!

I need to give certain domain users local admin rights to their computers.
As I recall, I merely had to create a local user on the workstation in the
company domain using the 'manage|local users and groups|users' and give that
user admin rights. But now I can't seem to get that to work. There is no
place for me to indicate what domain a local user belongs to. I am logged
into the workstation as an admin and I can verify that I am logged into the
domain as the 'set l' command verifies. I also thought the Users screen had
a display similar to:

corp\frankf Frank Fine
mypc\frankf frank fine


Am I kookoo?? Or is this Win 2k Pro I am thinking of.. Oh well, then how do
you give a user local admin rights while they are logged on to the company
domain?

TIA

Marcus

 

[Steven Umbach]

You don't need to create a user, just add the users domain account to the local
administrator group on their workstation. --- Steve

 

[Marcus Smaby]

Thanks, that does it.. But I still feel my mind going..........

 

[Marcus Smaby]

Thanks, that does it.. But I still feel my mind going..........

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

The "pick user" dialog was "improved" in post-W2k versions,
but it is still very similar.
Start / run lusrmgr.msc and in the properties of the Administrators
group you should be able to select user accounts located in the
domain, if the machine is joined to the domain and using only the
correct DNS servers. Be careful about the "look in" scoping in the
dialog.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

That's the only way it's ever been done. If you create a local account, it
won't change anything in the behavior/permissions of the domain account.