Click OK to accept the changes and close the dialog box. Note

Part III ✦ Working with Networked Computers Figure 13-3: Identify your computer and the workgroup in the Network dialog box. Setting logon preferences in Windows XP If you’re using a Windows XP computer, you can change logon information in the User Accounts dialog box. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start ➪ Control Panel. The Control Panel appears, as shown in Figure 13-4.

Figure 13-4: Set the computer logon preferences in Windows XP.

2. Click User Accounts. The User Accounts dialog box appears see Figure 13-5.

Chapter 13 ✦ Accessing the Network Figure 13-5: Change or create a computer user.

3. Choose an account to change, and you can change the username, password account

type, and other information, as shown in Figure 13-6. Figure 13-6: Change a user’s account. Part III ✦ Working with Networked Computers The account type describes whether the user is an administrator or has limited permissions for the computer. This account type does not affect the network permissions.

4. Click the X to close the dialog boxes.

Changing user information on Windows XP in a domain If you’re using Windows XP Professional on a domain, such as in a Windows 2000 Server net- work, you have to configure the users twice in two different places. First, you perform the steps described in the preceding section for creating or changing user accounts on the XP computer. Second, you must create or change accounts in the Computer Management dialog box to match the computer accounts. Basically, you can add finer detail to the permissions in the Computer Management dialog box. To create or change a user in Computer Management for the domain account, follow these steps: 1. Click Start ➪ Control Panel. The Control Panel dialog box appears. 2. Click Performance ➪ Maintenance. The Performance and Maintenance dialog box appears.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the dialog box. Click Administrative Tools. The Administrative

Tools dialog box appears.

4. Double-click Computer Management. The Computer Management console appears see

Figure 13-7. Figure 13-7: Computer Management is for an XP on a domain.

5. Expand Local Users and Groups and select Users. A list of computer users appears in

the right window pane.

6. Right-click the user you want to configure, and choose Properties from the pop-up win-

dow. The user’s Properties dialog box appears see Figure 13-8. Note