Windows xp manage domain users

Because certain tasks, like installing drivers for new hardware, require you to log on using a local Administrator account. Skip to main content. Start your free trial. With this feature, you can type user names and passwords for various network resources and applications such as email one time, and then have Windows automatically supply that information for subsequent visits to those resources without your intervention. When you first log on to a server or a Web site, you are prompted for your user name and password.

When you type your user name and password for the resource, and then click to select the Remember my password check box, your logon information is stored with your user account. When you next connect to the same resource, these stored credentials are used by Windows to automatically authenticate your user account. When a credential is saved by selecting the Remember my password check box on the user name and password dialog box that you receive when you connect to a resource, the credential are saved in the most general form possible.

Saving a different credential for a different server in this domain would not overwrite this credential. The new credential would be saved by the use of more specific information. When you access a resource, the authentication package searches the Stored User Names and Passwords store for the most specific credential that matches that resource.

If one is found, it will be used by the authentication package without any interaction from you. If a credential is not found, an authentication error will be returned to the program that attempted to access the resource. At this point, you are prompted for your user name and password. You can manually manage the credentials that are stored in Stored User Names and Passwords by clicking Manage my network passwords in the user account that you want to change.

In the Stored User Names and Passwords dialog box, you can add a new entry, remove an existing entry, or view the properties and edit an existing entry; to do so, click the Add, Edit, or Properties button. Open the Stored User Names and Passwords dialog box; to do so, use the appropriate method:. Under or pick an account to change , click your user account to open the What do you want to change about your account? In the Server box, type the name of the server or share that you want.

Selecting a language below will dynamically change the complete page content to that language. Warning: This site requires the use of scripts, which your browser does not currently allow. See how to enable scripts. User Manager for Domains UsrMgr. This is nearly the same access level as members of the Users group except for some additional restrictions. By default, the built-in Guest account is a member of the Guests group.

When the Windows XP Professional system is joined to a domain, or domains the Domain Guests group of the domain s joined will be added to the local Guests group as well. Power Users Members of the Power Users group can create and modify local user accounts on the computer and share resources. Effectively, they are one group lower in authority on a local system from the Administrators group in that they possess most administrative powers with certain restrictions.

Users Members of the Users Group are prevented from making accidental or intentional system-wide changes and they are only slightly higher in the permission scheme than the Guests Group. Members of the Users group are limited to only having access to specific resources for which they have been assigned explicit permissions for and can only perform specific tasks for which they have been assigned explicit rights. When a new user is created on a Windows XP Professional system it is added to the Users group by default.

When the Windows XP Professional system is joined to a domain, or domains the Domain Users group of the domain s joined will be added to the local Users group as well. The name of the account as well as the password can be changed, however, and this is a recommended best practice. It is also recommended that the default Administrator account never be used or used as infrequently as possible and only when tasks need to be performed at an Administrative level.

If there is ever more than one Administrator on a workstation, each one should have an account created for their use. In the event that you need to log administrative events, this would be easier if there were a number of different administrator accounts created rather than a single one. The only "need" for the Guest account would be a kiosk type terminal in a lobby of an office building or hotel and in that event it could be used. If there is ever a short time need to grant access to a temporary user to a system it's is always worth the "aggravation" to create an account.

Also, it is not recommended to change any of the default permissions and other settings to the built in groups. If you need to elevate or lower permissions for all users in a built in group it is almost always better to create a new group, place all of the intended users into that group and make adjustments there accordingly.