Domain User Vs Local User

Is there a way to determine net preferably if the current user is a domain user account or local user account.

Domain user vs local user. In windows a local user is one whose username and encrypted password are stored on the computer itself. Can anyone please help. Here s how to make the right choice.

Part of the answer could be determining the domain or computer name from code. Domain user accounts can be controlled disabled and managed centrally. Also known by the names samaccountname and pre windows 2000 logon name.

The local user usually just one local administrator per machine is the one who cares about the configuration of the machine. There are two types of user accounts one is the local user account which is an account created on a computer. They don t usually have all the access or the authority to change certain services while the domain user account has complete authority on windows security features.

Too late now though. I read that after i created the domain user i should have restarted and logged onto the local machine to give the domain user permissions. But in my case the login into the domain is just for being able to access directories servers in the domain i do not really know the details all i know is that loggin into the domain user account is necessary.

A brief tutorial in which i demonstrate the difference between logging into the domain as a domain user versus logging into the local pc as a local compute. Local users and domain users in windows local users. This thread is locked.

Ahead of time i don not know the domain name this is running on so i can t just look for domain username v computer username. When you set up a new windows 10 pc you have a choice of four types of user accounts from the old school local account to the newest active azure directory. When you log in as a local user the computer checks its own list of users and its own password file to see if you are allowed to log into the computer.