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7-4 Chapter 7 Setting Up and Managing User Accounts
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Domain User
Domain user accounts
Provide access to network resources
Provide the access token for authentication
Are created in Active Directory directory services
on a domain controller
Figure 7-2 Domain user accounts
Built-In User Accounts
Domain Controller
Domain User
Account
Active
Directory
Windows XP Professional automatically creates a number of built-in local user
accounts. Table 7-1 describes these accounts.
Table 7-1 Built-In Local User Accounts
Account Description
Administrator Use the built-in Administrator account to manage the overall computer.
You can perform tasks to create and modify user accounts and groups,
manage security policies, create printer resources, and assign the permissions
and rights that allow user accounts to access resources.
Guest Use the built-in Guest account to allow occasional users to log on and
access resources. For example, an employee who needs access to
resources for a short time can use the Guest account. This account is
disabled by default to protect your computer from unauthorized use.
InitialUser The InitialUser account is named based on the registered user and is
created during Windows Activation (directly following installation)
only if the computer is a member of a workgroup. For example, if a
user named Sandra installed and activated Windows XP Professional as
a member of a workgroup, an account named Sandra is created following
installation. This account is made a member of the Administrators
local group.
HelpAssistant The HelpAssistant account is not available for standard logon. Instead,
this account is used to authenticate users who connect by using
Remote Assistance. Windows enables this account automatically when
a user creates a Remote Assistance invitation and disables the account
automatically when all invitations have expired. You will learn more
about Remote Assistance in Chapter 18, “Using Windows XP Tools.”