Domain issues

No. You can however access domain resources if you authenticate to them.

mmm I don't think so, why do you need to do that?

Nicolas Solop
BA, Argentina

not in an Active Directory based network as your user account and profile is not stored on the local machine.

You can log on with a local user account.
And at the same time, when network resources are needed, you can go to them (after entering a domain user/password)

Why? Logging into the domain just means that the account is located on a DC rather than the local accounts database on the machine. Thats the only difference.
There is not advantage of having local accounts.
So logging into the machine is the same as logging into the domain.

Assuming that the machine is joined to the domain, then yes. The domain users group is added to the local users group, so there shouldn't be a need for a local account as well.

I don't know if this is what you are trying to do but, when logged into the domain on a computer you cannot install programs onto that computer unless you have an admin user profile on the local machine.
What i do is to set up the same user onto the local machine and then log onto the doamin at the login prompt at start up.
Then I can log onto the domain AND have administrator privilages on the local machine.

to answer 7...if you can create a local account with admin rights, then you must have had admin rights in the first place.

so...what's the point of that?