newbie: add user to Active Directory

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Jeff

Hey

I've got 2 computers, one computer with winxp pro and the other computer has
Windows Server 2003

The windows server 2003 computer is set at domain controller....

On my winXP computer have I got a local user account which I want to be a
member of the domain/Active Directory. But I don't know how to set a local
user on a winXP computer to be a member of a domain?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreaciated!

Jeff
 
you would have to join the XP machine to the domain.
Create a user in AD
and login to the XP using that account, you would have to select to login to
domain and not local machine.
 
Hey

Thanks for that suggestion. I already tryed doing what is said in this
tutorial.... On the windows server 2003 computer I created a user (USER_A).
With this user I'm able to log on to my winXP (logging into the
domain/Active directory)

But I've used this winXP computer for several months with a user account
(USER_B) I set up on my winXP. I want this user account to be a member of
the domain/AD... I want it because when I log on as USER_A I haven't got
access to all my documents, contacts, emails created using USER_B.

So I want an already existing user account on my winXP to be a member of the
domain... -> so I can log into the domain with the user account I've been
using for months, and have access to all my files I created on my winXP
computer....

Any suggestions?

Jeff
 
Hmmm, tricky. Not sure really but I would give this a try, might be a failing
attempt but you could always try.

Go to control panel>Administration tools>Computer management>

Go to Local users and Groups. Select users.

Double click on your local account to the right there.

Go to the tab named "Member of" and press the add button.

At the bottom of the new form you'll see "enter the object names to select
blabla".. Try adding DomainName\USER_A (domainname = your domain name of
course).

Not sure what this will do but I guess it will give your local account the
privileges your AD account has.

Let me know how it turns out, maybe I can help you more when I'm off work :P
 
No, it didn't fix it... I tryed to enter USER_A in that window as you
suggested, but the system rejected it... I can only select groups that are
available on the winXP computer. I even gave USER_A adminitrator rights on
the domain and logged in as USER_A, but even then I could not set my winXP
user account to be a member of the domain....
 
Assuming USER_B has the same name as USER_A then all you should have to do is
this...

1) Reboot your workstation.
2) Log in as an administrator (but not as either USER_A or USER_B).
3) Right-click on "My Computer" and left-click on "Properties" (or press
Windows Key + Pause/Break)
4) Click the [Settings] button under "User Profiles".
5) From the list of usernames select USER_A (Computer_Name\User_Name).
6) Click [Copy To].
7) Click [Browse].
8) Locate and select the profile directory of USER_B. It will probably be
a subdirectory of "C:\Documents and Settings\". The name of the folder will
be something like User_Name.Domain_Name.
9) Click [OK].
10) Click [Change] in the "Permitted to use" section.
11) Type in the username of USER_B.
12) Click [OK].
13) Click [OK] and to start the profile copying process.
14) After the process is complete, log off the administrator account and
log in as USER_B. Your files and software custimizations should now be
accessible to you.


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