Domain user not having admin rights on local machine

Question

I'm using Windows 2003 server as active directory and Windows 7 as a station. I need to have a regular domain user have admin rights on local machine. I added domain user to local admin group but they still do not have full access as local administrator.

Solution

On the workstation log in as domain admin and issue

net localgroup Administrators /add DOMAIN\USER 

That will make the domain user an Administrator on that workstation only.

Comments

[Sam]

Just to confirm, the Windows 7 machine is joined to the domain. Yes?

[Renny]

Yes it is, in fact domain admins belong to local admin group, I just added a regular domain user to local admin group but still no rights on local machine

[Sam]

And you're positive that it was the domain user that got added and not a local user with the same name? (sorry, just trying to run through the obvious things! :) Do you see it listed in the Administrators group on the PC?

[surfasb]

Curious. Also what action are you using to "test" that the user has full access as local administrator?

[Renny]

I just disabled UAC and now it works!

[surfasb]

I'm assuming that's what the OP did when he said, " I added domain user to local admin group . . ." If not, then that's our problem.

[Timmerz]

thanks! I logged in as local admin and ran it on my domain account and it worked.