I work for a company of about 225 users. Most are on Windows 98SE, the rest on 95 are being phased out. Now we are moving to Windows XP. We are on a novell network. Now, with Windows XP and user accounts I am getting confused. We use the microsoft netware client. Everyone has their own PC but sometimes others have to login. We had it set up to log in to the domain but it would take 3 minutes or so. Now we dont have it logging in to the domain, it's just logging into the computer name, but all the network drives are mapped. I am not the main IT person here, I just follow orders. First question, she wants to keep it now not logging IN to the domain because she says its still attached to the domain. What kind of problems is this going to cause? I am not too techie. Second question, how can someone else log in to the computer if we dont login to the domain. Her idea is to rename the administrator and have them use that account. But there is no way to cancel past it or log in as someone else, unless you create another dummy user account or something?

First off I'd suggest not renaming the PC's local administrator account; better to make a copy and name it as needed, and leave the original Administrator account intact in case someone forgets their password and locks themselves out of the machine. Do you have an NT domain and a Novell Netware NDS tree on the same network? Or do you just have the Windows PCs on the network as a workgroup, and have the users sign in under their Novell usernames to the Novell network? If the latter you could just create a local user on each workstation which matches the username on the Novell network, then when you log in as that user to the Novell network it'll automatically log you in as that user to the workstation.