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Window 7 in a workgroup

Hello

I use a local account (.\Username) that is a member of the admistrator group on the local computer to connect my computers a workgroup. This will not work on Windows 7, I think it has to do with the fact that when you logon to a Window 7 computer with a local account you have to put COMPUTERNAME\Username. How do I put this into my credential ring so the it will take it and is there a way to do it without putting each computer name in for each.

Thanks

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solarwinds-admin

We're not aware of any limitations in the Windows 7 environment that precludes the use of the .\Administrator wildcard syntax to identify the use of the local machine Administrator account. The dot causes the machinename to be substituted. One item of interest would be to confirm that the machine name identified with that computer record is the actual machine name. A scenario that occurs somewhat often has to do with the Extension Pack having stale IP Address information for a client. If the DHCP leases are particularly short, and a client has not been contacted, or reported, in some time, it is possible that the client now has a different DHCP-issued IP Address, and the Extension Pack is simply connecting to the wrong machine, and thus using the wrong machine\administrator account to authenticate.

solarwinds-admin

Also, when using the .\Administrator credential, the password on all targeted systems must be identical. If a user has changed the local Administrator password and it no longer matches what is stored in the Extension Pack database, then access will be denied.

solarwinds-admin

Does it matter that the user is created by me and added to the local admistrators group, I am not using the local administator as we are not allowed to use it.

solarwinds-admin

It should not. As long as the account is a member of the Administrators group, and has Log On Local rights, it should authenticate.

However, if policy is being used to manage the membership of the local Administrators group, then you might have been able to add your local account interactively, but policy would have 'undone' that at the next policy refresh, so confirming that your account is still in the Administrators group would be something to consider.

The next thing to confirm is that you can log onto the local desktop using that account.