Logging on locally?

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Hi everyone, sorry if this is a stupid post. But to be honest I'm not that good at servers and I'm trying my best to improve. I always get confused with this. Logging on locally, when someone refers to that does it mean logging onto the local computer? By changing the drop down button on the log on to. To this computer?

Or can you log on locally to a domain? Like for example entering your credentials for the domain and granted access?

Hope someone can help,

Thanks,
Dave

 

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You're right. Logging in locally means loggin in onto computer's local account (ie not a domain account). But you can still log in remotely using RDP into local account and it's still logging in locally.

 

oh right thought so, so you cannot login to a domain locally? Just the local account to the computer. So I guess any local permissions set on the computer on apply to the local account?

Thanks,
Dave

 

There's is no such thing as domain local login. User accounts are local or domain wide. And yes local permissions apply to local accounts. Also you can add domain accounts to local permissions for example you can make domain user an administrator or power user on local machine while within the domain he would only be a domain user.

To try this out. Create a basic domain user. Log in onto client machine with administrator rights, go into control panel -> user accounts, click "Add...". Enter domain user name and domain name and click next. Make him an Administrator.
Now logout and relog as that user. You're administrator on this machine while you're just a normal user across the domain.

 

Thought there wasn't. I always though local and domain were two differnt things, cheers mate will have a play about with that later thanks for clearing this up for me!

Dave

 

Thanks Sparky, I think that's whats confusing me. But I swear I read something about not being able to log onto a domain controller with a user account as the local security database isn't held on the domain controller so it can't authenticate login?

So on a standard domain connected machine. If the log on locally permission isn't granted you cannot log in locally? IE from the log on to dropdown (this computer....)


Thanks for helping!

Dave

 

Thanks Sparky that helped a lot! So log on locally refers to the Domain account and can restrict/enable domain users from logging into a computer that is joined to the Domain I guess this is good if they want a computer to not connect to the domain. To be honest I'm not really at this stage at the moment but I seem to know the workgroup policies much better than the domainsis what I said above correct. This made it a lot clearer and I shall have a fiddle about tonight .

Thanks again,

Dave