logon locally AND to a domain?

can a windows pc have a local logon password AND a domain password? in other words, can it be set up to have a user log on locally as well as to a domain, or only one or the other? is it possible that a user will logon to the local machine with a password, then logon to a domain with a password?

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D-boy

Yes you can have both, One for logging into the Local PC & the other to log onto the domain.

Ricka182

You logon to either the local machine, or the domain. You can't do both at once.

JSW77

so if you have a laptop that you logon to locally when not connected to a network (or when connected to a workgroup), but also use to log onto a domain, how would this be accomplished?

Ricka182

JSW77 wrote:

so if you have a laptop that you logon to locally when not connected to a network (or when connected to a workgroup), but also use to log onto a domain, how would this be accomplished?

After you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, you select or type your usename and password. Then click on advanced, and select either local, or domain.

JSW77

thanks. also... if you already have a local account, but are going to add the laptop to a domain, what configuration needs to be done to the laptop in order to do this?

Ricka182

Under system properties, click on Network Identification. It will say something like,....to join this copmuter to a domain, clcik here. You must have the rights to join to the domain, along with username and password setup within domain.