Domain User Vs Local User

They don t usually have all the access or the authority to change certain services while the domain user account has complete authority on windows security features.

Domain user vs local user. To allow users to logon with a local account creates an insecure situation as there is little that can be done to control local accounts. Domain user is the old logon format called down level logon name. Domain user accounts can be controlled disabled and managed centrally. Can anyone please help.

When you log in as a local user the computer checks its own list of users and its own password file to see if you are allowed to log into the computer. The type of user account determines the privileges given to a user. You can follow the question or vote as helpful but you cannot reply to this thread. When you set up a new windows 10 pc you have a choice of four types of user accounts from the old school local account to the newest active azure directory.

In windows a local user is one whose username and encrypted password are stored on the computer itself. Here s how to make the right choice. A brief tutorial in which i demonstrate the difference between logging into the domain as a domain user versus logging into the local pc as a local compute. The local user usually just one local administrator per machine is the one who cares about the configuration of the machine.

Local users and domain users in windows local users. There are two types of user accounts one is the local user account which is an account created on a computer. Part of the answer could be determining the domain or computer name from code. Ahead of time i don not know the domain name this is running on so i can t just look for domain username v computer username.

The concept of domain vs local user account is really not much of a debate. Im not sure what next to do. This thread is locked. Is there a way to determine net preferably if the current user is a domain user account or local user account.

It s the preferred newer logon format. Also known by the names samaccountname and pre windows 2000 logon name. But in my case the login into the domain is just for being able to access directories servers in the domain i do not really know the details all i know is that loggin into the domain user account is necessary.