Local/Network Login Anomaly

[Guest]

Hello

Got a strange issue going on with one of my workstations. The workstation is a brand new Win2k Pro build. We unboxed it today and slapped the OS onto it (we don't use any imaging software or anything...small outfit...doing it the hard way). Any-hoo...when it came time to put our apps on it, we noticed that we're able to map certain drives, access certain files on servers within the domain. However, this machine has not yet been joined to the AD. We confirmed that it was logged in with the local administrator account. The only thing I can think of is that our back-door admin local admin account/pw is the same as our Builtin\Administrator account in our network. Is it possible this is somehow allowing us to navigate the network

Thanks for any info

Dennis Jones

 

[Scott Hutchinson]

Dennis ~

Yes, it will use "Pass-through Authentication" if the
local Username and Password match those on the Server (or
AD resourse) to which the user tries to connect.

Scott.

-----Original Message-----
Hello.

Got a strange issue going on with one of my workstations.

The workstation is a brand new Win2k Pro build. We unboxed
it today and slapped the OS onto it (we don't use any
imaging software or anything...small outfit...doing it the
hard way). Any-hoo...when it came time to put our apps on
it, we noticed that we're able to map certain drives,
access certain files on servers within the domain.
However, this machine has not yet been joined to the AD.
We confirmed that it was logged in with the local
administrator account. The only thing I can think of is
that our back-door admin local admin account/pw is the
same as our Builtin\Administrator account in our network.
Is it possible this is somehow allowing us to navigate the
network?