Hello everyone. I am studing for the MCSA and I am trying to learn everything I can, so if anyone could explain this to me, it would be great.Anyway, my basic setup is just 2 computers. 1 running Enterprise Server 2003 and the other WinXP SP2. I have setup a user account to be a member of the Administrators group. I login into the Xp machine with the credentials and everything is fine. But then, (ON the XP) machine, when I try to access the User Accounts section in Control panel, I get this:Now, that is not the domain I am logged into. I am logged into contoso.com as my domain (MS books example domain). The name listed there Jim-jh2j34h32 is just my computer name. So my question is, do local policies trump policies of Server? The error message says I must be part of the Admin group; but the admin group of the local computer or the admin group of AD. Because in AD, the user is a member.Can anyone shed some light?

I'm briefly reading.... but I have to ask the stupid questions... have you made the computer (XP Machine) join the contoso domain?

yes, even in the pic it shows I am logged in under CONTOSO/nappyjim3

have you tried on the domain just typing contoso\nappyjim3 ... and use the correct username? Also, on my network that I use I also have on my AD all of my computers in a domain as well ... not too sure if you need to do that... it's been a few years since I have had to change it. also you could try running gpupdate on cmd ... maybe that might work.

You should be able to change the domain to the correct one.