I have a Windows XP machine connected to a office network domain. When I am logged into the domain I cannot install software. It tells me that I have to be logged in as an administrator. The user name is a member of the Administrator's group. I can only install software if I am logged in to the PC (not the domain)as the user. I though it might read the same user logged in to the PC and the domain as two different users so I tried to add a user to the administrator group in the form domain/user but it would not recognize it. If it matters, I am joining the PC to a domain hosted on a Red Hat Linux server using SAMBA to share resources to Windows machines. The Linux machine also handles the DHCP allocation. Any help would be appreciated. I can work around by installing when logged into the PC. However, I am setting this system up for a novice user and the confusion will be a problem becaus I'm not sure what other setting he will not be able to change when logged into the domain.

i could quite understand your post, but i will try to help anyway :) the user you are logging in as, lets call the user bob for now. does bob exist as a domain user on the domain, and also a local user on that computer? what you need to do is log into the domain as administrator, and then edit the users on that computer (start -> control panel -> user accounts). give the user administrator rights to his own computer. is that what you have already done?

Well don't I feel stupid. I hate that you can do the same thing in different ways and it does not work the same. I have been doing the user functions by right clicking my computer and selecting manage. Someone told me this was the best way to achieve it. After your response I figured I'd better check it again and went to control panel the users then add. From this screen I was able to add the user bob and select the domain. After that all worked as expected.