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Synching NT workstation and domain logon

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by jamesa

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I have several users who need to have administrator rights to their Windows NT workstation machine but also need to log into a domain. They also log into a Netware server. Is there anyway to synchronize the passwords so when they change one it changes the other? Or to give them admin rights on their pc while logging in directly to the domain? Right now they establish the connection by mapping a drive to the server.

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by joseph moore

You can add domain NT accounts to local machines by adding them to the local machines' Local Administrators group.
Open User Manager on each workstation you want the user to be a local admin on.
Double-click the Local Administrators group, then click Add, select your NT domain name in the drop-down box, and select the user's domain account. Click OK.
That way, when the user logs into that machine using their domain NT account, they are also made a Local Administrator on that machine ONLY!And then, the user only needs to have one login (their NT domain login) instead of one for the domain and one that works on the local machine only.

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by jamesa

Thanks, this did help except for one small thing. We use a cad program called PROE/PDM and the PDM portion connects to a unix based machine. When we log in as either just a domain user or by adding the domain user to the local group for some reasonPDM does not see the unix machine. It only sees the local drives. If you have any other ideas I would love to hear from you. Please feel free to email me.

by 1nfo

1. Admin right
By default, domain user are member of local user group. If user need admin right on their pc, you can add their domain user id to the local admin group.
2. Netware & nt password sync
Assuming novell client 32 is installed on nt workstation, user would be able to do a single login & password synchronization, netware follow by domain login.

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