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by ekh5
by p. dickason, cne, mcse, cca
Do you have a domain or a worgroup? If you have a domain, the group domain users gets added automatically to the local users group upon adding the workstation to the domain. More likely that not, I have to move domain users to the local power users group since there are programs out there that just don't like the users group. Too restrictive. If you have just a workgroup, you will need to create that user id on every computer in the workgroup for which they will be using services. Once again the local users group is a good place for remote users. That way they can only access services you set up for them and have no access to anything else. Hope this helps.
Thanks
Pete
by timwalsh
If I understand you correctly, you have a domain user account that has administrative privileges, but you don't want to use that account for normal day-to-day stuff on your workstation. However, you have some programs that require administrative privileges to run.
I'm assuming you already have a domain user account that has normal user privileges. If not, go ahead and create one for normal everyday use.
Win2K (and later OSes) include a feature called RunAs. This allows you to run anapplication in the context of a different user account. This feature is available from the drop-down context menu when you right-click an object. This should work from either a short-cut icon in your start menu, or when you right-click on the actual executable. When you right-click, the drop-down menu shows an option called "Run As." When you choose this it gives you the option of running the program under the current context (currently logged-on user ID and password), or a different context(another local or domain user ID and password -- such as administrator). The down side to this is that this must be done each time you want to run a program under a different context.
Hope this is what you are looking for.
by ekh5
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