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Creating and Authcnticating Local User Accounts

Local user accounts, which are the only type of user accounts in a workgroup

environment, are created on the Computer on which they will be used, and

enable the user to gain access to resources on that Computer.

A local user account resides in a security account database, called the Security

Account Manager (SAM), of the Computer on which the user account is created.

Because the local user account resides locally, it Controls access only to local

resources, which are those resources that reside on the local Computer.

When a local user account is authenticated, it is authenticated against the

credentials in the local SAM.

This course does not address the administration of user accounts. For

morę information about administering user accounts, see Module

1,

. Introduction to Windows 2000 Administration,. and Module 2,

. Setting Up

User Accounts,. in Course 2028A, Basic Administration of Microsoft Windows 2000.