making local and network passwords the same

Currently I have to log onto my PC (running Vista Business
Edition) and then (when I first need something on the network) log
into my network domain (specifying the domain). The passwords are
currently different.

Is there an easy way to securely change it to only require one
login?

Thanks, Alan

Join the computer to the domain then logon with your domain user account. If
you've already joined the computer to the domain then at the logon screen
click on Switch User, then in the user name field specify
domain_name\domain_user

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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Alan" <jalanthomas@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Currently I have to log onto my PC (running Vista Business
> Edition) and then (when I first need something on the network) log
> into my network domain (specifying the domain). The passwords are
> currently different.
>
> Is there an easy way to securely change it to only require one
> login?
>
> Thanks, Alan
>

I think the difficulty is that my computer is in its own workgroup,
and I`m actually connecting to a proxy server.

If you are not joined to the domain then I'm pretty sure you will always be
asked for authentication the first time you try to access an active
directory domain resource. You can try caching the domain credentials but I
haven't had a lot of luck with this. See the second post in this thread.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...r=US&sloc=&p=1

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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Alan" <jalanthomas@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I think the difficulty is that my computer is in its own workgroup,
> and I`m actually connecting to a proxy server.
>