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If you have a network of PC’s and you wish to upgrade all the pc’s to NT Workstation, how do you add all the users on the network to the NT User Administrator of each pc with out entering each one in to pc manually?

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You can do if from a batch file (like in their logon script). Here is some batch code that should do what you want.
net use \\PDCname DomainAdminPassword /User:DomainNameDomainAdminUserName
net start netlogon
net localgroup Administrators “DomainName\Domain Users” /add

Each net command starts a new line (this windows trucates the lines. I personally have never had to use it, but always keep it around just in case. Give it a try and good luck!

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Hi Andy,

First, I would question the advisability of giving all domain users Administrator authority over all local workstations. Most of the time, you can allow users to accomplish what they need with a lesser amount of authority. However, if you are sure you want to do this, create a global group, include all the users you wish to give this authority, and then make include that global group in the local group Administrators.

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I’m with the second guy on this. Not to be anal or anything, but giving someone Administrator rights even at the CPU level is not advisable. Maybe they can be Power Users and you can give them that right within the User Manager for the Domain. Remember that the model without a Domain is 10 users or less, per MS, and NT doesn’t like a lot of resource sucking items such as desktop fu. Giving the users complete control over the pc undermines your own authority and control. My first question would be why?

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First of all you’re not saying if you have a server and or what kind of network architecure (like one domain, some workgroups etc.)
So I’ll try to help by assumming some situation.
1. You could have a network with a designated server in which caseyou could have a number of workgrups. In this case all the user names and rights are administrated by the local users on workstations. So you could establish peer to peer relations and general relations based on the Everyone group. On the peer to peer if you want to give to some users special rights to a station they have to be added locaclly and so on. But you’ll have to give them all static IP’s.
2 You could have a network with one server in which case you could make that server a primary domain controller and add some interesting services like WINS, DNS, DHCP which will allow you to give dinamic IP addresses you could set up shared directories on that server etc…The most importatnt of them all a primary domain controller (or PDC) gives you an authenticat

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I agree with the others that it is questionable to give all users admin rights to their machines. However I read your question a bit differently. How do you add users from the network to users of the PC. My answer is don’t bother, if they have rights to the network, they will be able to log onto the workstation as they log onto the network, a user profile will be created even though they are not a registered user of the workstation. When you want a user to have unique rights to the workstation, which they will not have to the network, is when you should consider setting users up with specific workstation rights. But why bother yourself with trying to maintain user rights at the workstation level in addition to the network level?

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create one NT Workatations Master drive set user rights login local to domaim uers only and clone the rest of Workstations, add users only to PDC.

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If you are not worried about security, and I presume you are not, or you would not want to add every one into an admin group, why not by pass the log in altogether by enabling autoadmin logon. Go to the registry and open the H_Key_Loacal Machine / software /Microsoft /winnt /current version /winlogon and add an entry for default password. Then add the line AutoAdminLogon = 1. Make sure the default user is the administrator. Once you have done this the machine will boot and log on automatically to administrator without having to enter a password. Your users will be able to sit at any machine and be able to fully administer it. Best wishes Jeremy

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when an NT workstation joins a domain, the user manager for domains is automatically replicated anyways, is it not?

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The above answer is correct. However, if you are using a logon script, you can do this through a batch file and not have to visit every machine. Here is some batch code that should do what you want.
net use \\PDCname DomainAdminPassword /User:DomainNameDomainAdminUserName
net start netlogon
net localgroup Administrators “DomainName\Domain Admins” /add

Each net command starts a new line (this windows trucates the lines. Give it a try and good luck!

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