User and group accounts enable users to participate in a domain and to access its resources. Rights and permissions granted to user accounts and group accounts provide the appropriate amount of freedom and restriction that an organization’s various resources require.
Managing user and group accounts involves careful planning, but the procedures for administering accounts are simple and straightforward. In most cases, these procedures are identical for domain accounts and for workstation accounts.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Every person who regularly will use the network and participate in a domain must have a user account in a domain on the network. The user account contains information about the user, including name, password, and various optional entries that determine when and how users log on and how their desktop settings are stored.
This section discusses the following topics:
