Question

• I try the following command to add a domain user into local Administrators group of my Windows 7 computer and my computer has already joined domain.

  net localgroup administrators mydomain.local\user1 /add /domain

  It returns successful added, but I don’t find it in the local Administrators group.

  How can I do it?

  Thanks,

  Joe.

  Answers

  • Because you are using the /domain parameter you are executing the command on the PDC instead of on the local computer. Try this command:

    net localgroup administrators mydomain.local\user1 /add

    More information: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725622(v=ws.10).aspx

    Examples

    The following example displays a list of all the local groups on the local server, type:

    net localgroup

    The following example adds a local group called Exec to the local user accounts database, type:

    net localgroup exec /add

    The following example adds a local group called Exec to the domain user accounts database, type:

    net localgroup exec /add /domain

    The following example adds the existing user accounts stevev, ralphr (from the Sales domain), and jennyt to the Exec local group on the local computer, type:

    net localgroup exec stevev sales\ralphr jennyt /add

    The following example adds the existing user accounts stevev, ralphr, and jennyt to the Exec group of a domain, type:

    net localgroup exec stevev ralphr jennyt /add /domain

    The following example displays users in the Exec local group, type:

    net localgroup exec

    The following example adds a comment to the Exec local group record, type:

    net localgroup exec /comment:"The executive staff."