A Windows domain is a form of a computer network in which all user accounts, computers, printers and other security principals, are registered with a central database (called a directory service) located on one or on a cluster of central computers known as domain controllers.
Questions tagged [windows-domain]
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How do I delete a user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is part of a domain?
How can I delete the local user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is connected to a Windows Server 2008 domain?
DelProf doesn't seem to exist on Windows 7.
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How do I enable Automatic Logon in Windows 7 when I'm on a domain?
When Windows 7 is joined to a domain the option to automatically login is no longer available in the advanced User Management console. Since I am running a small home domain because of SharePoint and TFS, how would I go about enabling this…
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How can I tell which Domain controller I'm authenticated to?
How can I tell which Domain controller I'm authenticated to? Is there a way to do this without local admin?
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Security Concern with my Windows 7 Box at Work
This question may be weird and misworded but I'm not a Windows expert by any means so feel free to correct me.
The group I'm in recently got new computers at work. They gave me a new computer and hooked up my old computer to the network for a week…
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Determine own domain group memberships XP Professional
This seems like it would be a simple question, but my Google skills have failed me.
When logged into a domain (as a domain user without any admin rights), how can I determine what groups my user account belongs to?
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When RDP as a Domain User, Smart Card Requested
My W8 machine is connected to domain zen. If I rdp to the W8 machine, I can log in as a local user without problems. If I try to log in as a domain user, I am prompted for a smart card instead of a password.
Any ideas why?
Note that Interactive…
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How can I make firefox behave like IE on a windows domain when requesting user credentials
With windows IE, I never have to input my domain credentials, it's able to just pass them along.
Is there a way to do this for firefox so that whenever i try to access a site within the intranet that asks for credentials, I won;t get prompted?
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What are reasons for local Windows named-pipes to fail?
I've been working hard on this one all day and I'm stuck. This morning our asian collegues called me because a SolidWorks addin for our product data management system could not communicate with the local main application. The problem affects end…
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How do I join a Windows 8 PC into a domain?
How can I enroll a Windows 8 PC into an existing domain?
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How to list windows privileges for any user
I am trying to write a script to list the privileges (eg SeShutDownPrivilege etc) of all user accounts. I'd prefer it if my script could be run as a standard user, but I can run it as an admin account if I had to.
Here are the approaches I have…
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How can I get the Trust Relationship to the domain to stop failing?
I just installed Windows 10. I was part of a domain. When I try to log in I get,
"The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."
Since I do not remember my local accounts, am I left with resetting the local…
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How do I force Windows 7 to create a new domain profile with same name as an existing one?
I had a corrupt user profile (let's call it bob) affecting xslx files for Excel on a Windows 7 Pro x64 workstation. I verified that the issue was not present on other profiles on the same machine.
I made a new user, temp. I logged in with the local…
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What is the difference between a domain and a realm
I couldn't get any clear-cut answer hence asking on this forum. I want to know the difference between domain and realm. I tried looking for it at several places on internet . Are they same, different, related or one is subset of other?
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The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized
I am trying to use Remote Desktop to another PC on our domain. If I use an administrators account this works fine, however when I use a normal user it gives the error:
The connection was denied because the user account is not authorised
for…
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How can I connect a Windows 8 PC to a Samba domain
I am using Samba 3, and want to join my Windows 8 PC to the Samba domain.
Windows 8 cannot join out of the box, so I added the following registry entries:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters
DWORD…
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