Domain configuration help

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hedniskhjartad

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Hi!

I have XP Pro, SP2 on all my computers, and server 2003 standard for the server.

I'm trying to figure out how to configure a new computer onto my domain. I gave it a new username and password through active directory, and set it up to be on the domain. It's connecting perfectly. The only thing is that according to default settings, it created a new user folder inside c:\docs&settings, when I want to access the Administrator account through this username/password.

A friend of mine helped me set up the domain a while back, and these are the folders inside my own computers' documents and settings folder:

administrator
administrator.DOMAINNAME
MYDOMAINUSERNAME
All Users
Default User

I'm supposing that I actually log into MYDOMAINUSERNAME, and get the "administrator.DOMAINNAME" desktop.

Can someone shed some light on whether this is the intelligent (or only)way to go about accessing my administrator account while still being on the domain? And how would i go about re-enacting it?
 
In (ONLY) windows xp pro, you have to go to the system proporties (right click My computer then proporties, or press the windows key+pause/break) click Computer Name, then Enter in the domain name instead of a workgroup, it will ask you for a username and password (use the Administrator account built into win2003) and click OK, it will say You Are Now a Member of DOMAINAME! or something like that, then you have to restart, upon logging in, click options and click Connect or Log On to then in the drop down menu click your Domain Name, enter the Net Username and Password (in your case, Administrator) Enter, wait 2-7minutes to create the new account

I think that is exactley step by step but im not a windows pc right now so i may be off in one or two steps....good luck...win2003 is a good server
 
centralviking: michigan, eh? i just moved to new jersey from saginaw =P

thanks for your guide there, although my question was referring to something slightly different. I already have that new xp pro connecting to the domain. What i would like to do is log into the administrator account, with the same desktop and all the privilages, while still being on the domain. the way my friend did another computer a while back was by creating what i think is a mirror account called "Administrator.MYDOMAIN", which I access by signing in to my own username (hedniskhjartad), and then the Administrator.MYDOMAIN then links to the real administrator account. Does this make any sense? I'm just spewing illogical logic off my head, seeing the directory structure in my documents and settings folder :P
 
Ok, well i have no idea what your trying to say so refer to this and then tell me

Local Administrator- Administrator Account Built Into the Computer
Domain Administrator- Administrator Account Built Into the Server and Can be Accessed on Local Computers

Which one are you trying to log onto with your computer?
 
Do you mean that you want your user account to be a admin acount for the server or an admin account for the domain? Or did I totally miss what you ment?
 
axgrinder73: I'm trying to get my user account to be admin for the local computer, not the server or the domain... sorry if I wasn't clear. The rest of what i've written below should make it clear, i hope.

centralviking19: local administrator.

When I create a new user within active directory on the server, and go back to log into my new client pc, it, it gives me restricted local privileges.

I'm trying to do two things here:
1) Trying to give this new domain account local administrative priviliges.
2) In the simplest way i guess i can say it, I'm trying to view my old actual local administrator account's desktop on this new domain account. If I do that, I get both my old "local administrator" desktop back to use on the domain, and by default, also get back all my local administrative privilages.

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That's what I'm trying to do. What comes next is what my friend did a while back, and I can't seem to replicate it, so reading that might give you a hint as to how he might have done it:
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If I log into one of my older pcs (with the domain account as set up in act. directory, and not the local administrator account), It logs me in as myusername.mydomain, but i see my old local administrator desktop.

If I go into my c:\documents and settings folder on one of the older pcs, these are the folders I see there:

administrator
administrator.DOMAINNAME
MYDOMAINUSERNAME
All Users
Default User


Therefore, this is what I think is happening.
I log into MYDOMAINUSERNAME. MYDOMAINUSERNAME then picks up the desktop that "administrator.DOMAINNAME" has, which I believe is somehow mirroring the actual local administrator account. This is as far as I seem to understand how my friend did it.

I've tried to find online resources, but thus far, i'm baffled. :confused:
 
hedniskhjartad said:
axgrinder73: I'm trying to get my user account to be admin for the local computer, not the server or the domain... sorry if I wasn't clear. The rest of what i've written below should make it clear, i hope.

centralviking19: local administrator.

When I create a new user within active directory on the server, and go back to log into my new client pc, it, it gives me restricted local privileges.

I'm trying to do two things here:
1) Trying to give this new domain account local administrative priviliges. I believe that you will have to do this at the server user account level

2) In the simplest way i guess i can say it, I'm trying to view my old actual local administrator account's desktop on this new domain account. If I do that, I get both my old "local administrator" desktop back to use on the domain, and by default, also get back all my local administrative privilages. I believe you will not see the local desktop while logged onto the domain because it is a different account.

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That's what I'm trying to do. What comes next is what my friend did a while back, and I can't seem to replicate it, so reading that might give you a hint as to how he might have done it:
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If I log into one of my older pcs (with the domain account as set up in act. directory, and not the local administrator account), It logs me in as myusername.mydomain, but i see my old local administrator desktop.

If I go into my c:\documents and settings folder on one of the older pcs, these are the folders I see there:

administrator
administrator.DOMAINNAME
MYDOMAINUSERNAME
All Users
Default User
I am guessing that if you look, the domain and local admin have the same desktop (in appearance.) This would happen if the domain account was setup on the computer before any changes were made to the local desktop. For example: If you have more than 1 user name on the domain, and you log a user (at the domain level) on to a computer that they have never logged into before, they will get a new desktop that will mirror the local admin desktop minus any local admin personal files.

Therefore, this is what I think is happening.
I log into MYDOMAINUSERNAME. MYDOMAINUSERNAME then picks up the desktop that "administrator.DOMAINNAME" has, which I believe is somehow mirroring the actual local administrator account. This is as far as I seem to understand how my friend did it.

I've tried to find online resources, but thus far, i'm baffled. :confused:
Click to expand...

This may not be exactly right, but it is how I remember it happening. I guess that I havn't paid real close attention to the desktop features.

Keep us updated as to what you find.
 
"I believe that you will have to do this at the server user account level"

I'll poke around for such a setting on the server.

"I am guessing that if you look, the domain and local admin have the same desktop (in appearance.) This would happen if the domain account was setup on the computer before any changes were made to the local desktop. For example: If you have more than 1 user name on the domain, and you log a user (at the domain level) on to a computer that they have never logged into before, they will get a new desktop that will mirror the local admin desktop minus any local admin personal files."

not really. if you take the example of one of my other computers that's already set up like that, the entire account is mirrored onto the new domain user account... not only the desktop, but the privilages. if i'm logged into the domain user account, all my recent files history, temporary internet files, everything is saved inside my local "Administrator" account folder, while my domainuser directory remains empty and unchanged.

If I find anything noteworthy, I'll keep you updated.. thanks!
 
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