Local domain admin account

[Phil]

In windows 2000 pro you can set a local domain admin by
using the usernames and passwords console under control
panel. Just type the username and domain name and set
that user as a local administrator. How do you perform
the same process with Windows 2000 server, there is no
username and passwords in control panel. The only work
around I have found is setting the account to be a domain
admin in active directory, then log onto the server with
that account and you now have rights to install programs,
change network settings etc... Is there a better/easier
way to do this, I would rather not give them domain admin
rights, just admin rights on the local machine using the
domain account. Thanks for any help, I appreciate it.

 

[rob]

Every windows install regardless of server, or
workstation, starts off with a local admin account. It's
called.. administrator. Someone probably renamed it, a
standard security practice. Find that account, copy it,
and use the copy as your local admin template.

 

[Phil]

Thanks for the reply, my local admin account is fine,
but I am logging onto windows 2000 server with user
named "testing", which is a domain account. I want that
domain account testing, to have local admin privilages of
that server. That way when logged on as the domain
account "testing" programs can be installed, settings
changed, etc.. The only way I know to do this is to
set "testing" as a domain admin in active directory. This
gives that account domain privilages to the whole domain,
when I just want domain privilages for the one server.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Domain controllers have no local users and by default in a domain the domain
administrator is also in the local administrators group on every domain computer. If
this is not a domain controller try using Computer Management to find local users and
groups. If it is not there, then possibly Group Policy restrictions have removed
t. --- Steve