How to make Windows 7 easy to login locally or to domain?
We have 10 computers that will be used by kids and staff members. Idealy, we would like to be able to use parental controls and family safety on domain user accounts but this is not supported. So we have created local accounts on the computer for the kids and we want the staff to login to the domain on the same computers.I'm finding that it will be slightly complicated for the local kids account to logon after a staff member has logged in because of the way the Windows 7 logon screen operates.For example, if a kid wants to logon under the local account kids, they have to type in the following for the user name: kids-pc-01\kidsThen if the staff login, they have to switch user and then type in the following for the username: domain\usernameThis might seem easy if you are only using one computer but we have 10 computers will people are going to have to remember this for. And if they start hopping around from computer to computer this could become a big aggrevation.Anyone have any good ideas? Preferrably I'm looking for a way for all users, kids and staff, to logon to the domain but protect the kids accounts on the internet and lockdown the computer for them. But, I will take any other suggestions as well.Thanks.
September 28th, 2009 9:34pm

Actually we do not need to input domain name when trying to logon domain user account. When we click "switch user", domain name will be input automatically. So the difficult part is to input the computername\kids when trying to use local account. We may not able to find other option to make switching from local/domain user account easier, but we can input ".\kids" instead of "kids-pc-01\kids" when trying to log on local account. This should help logon local account a bit easier.
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September 29th, 2009 6:23am

Thanks I will try the .\kids to logon locally. I do have to contest when you said "domain name will be input automatically." I had already tried this and what happened was below username, before I started typing in my user name, it did in fact have the "logon to DomainName Domain" but after I typed Administrator and pressed the tab key to go to the password text box, it changed from the domain name to the local computer name.
September 29th, 2009 3:55pm

If the computer is joined domain, after log on and log off a local account, the local account will still exists on logon screen. After click Switch User, domain name will be listed below username (as you said) so we just need to input the domain user name. Administrator is the name of the default local account. So if we input administrator, "domain" will change to computer name as Administrator is a local account.
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September 30th, 2009 9:01am

You are wrong.The user name does not automatically get filled in. You manually have to type in domain name\user name then the password. when switching to local machine, you have to again type in local machine name\ user name then again password ex: HP\tommy then password. No matter how many times you switch back and forth, it still requires that info.
December 17th, 2009 10:15pm

You are wrong. The user name does not automatically get filled in... Actually, Shaon Shan said, "domain name will be input automatically".
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