Hello, On our domain we have a problem as follows: When a user logs on to the AD domain on his workstation, his user profile is locally created (as it should), but no local user is created. This means that is this user has a laptop he cannot log on locally on the machine if not connected to the network. Example: User Bishlouk logs on the AD domain, his profile is created locally. But no Bishlouk user is created locally (in Computer management / Users) which means that he cannot log on to the machine locally. Do you know a way (in W2K self or third party tool) to have the local user automatically created when logging on to the AD domain, as Novell Workstation Manager does ? Thanks a lot for your help. Bishlouk

Please forgive me if I have completely misunderstood you but in order for anyone to use a local account. You must first of all log on locally as Admin and create a local account at the computer for the user. This is a manual process.

I don't think you misunderstand his question but his question seems to be, is there a way to essentially have AD create local accounts when their domain account is created. The answer is no. The only local account that is 'created' is that DomainAdmins are added to the local Administrator account on the local PC when it joins the domain. The two account databases for domain and local accounts are obviously seperate so if you want local accounts you will have to log on locally and create those accounts.