Admin Rights

[Carloswill]

Is there a way to tell in W2K or XP if a user has Admin rights?

[djnes]

Yeah, you can go into the management console and see what group each user is in. If you can't get to the Management Console, then the user doesn't have admin rights.

[Carloswill]

I dont have admin rights and I can get to management console and see user/groups but when I click on disk management - Then I get an error

[djnes]

You already answered your original question then. Since you can get to the MMC, you can see the users/groups.

On to the second problem, what's the error?

[Carloswill]

no, someone just asked me this question & I kind of did not have an quick answer ;)

[lomn75]

The easiest method (IMO) is to right-click on the start button. If you see "Explore All Users", you're an Admin.

[Doc Holiday]

Check and see of you can change the time within Windows. I think only an admin can do this.

[Carloswill]

yes, that works!!!

[j4zzee]

as an alternate method...

the use of the NET command should display that info:
net user - displays local users
net user <a username> - displays specific info about the user
net localgroup - displays groups
net localgroup <a groupname> - displays local group members