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NOTE Even though a computer is on a domain, you can still log on using a

local user account, though this is rarely needed. You’ll only see this happen

with troubleshooting scenarios, like when we rebuilt corrupted profiles in

Chapter 16, “Troubleshooting Operating Systems.” Otherwise, once you’re a

member of a domain, you’ll log in with your domain account.

A Windows domain makes it easy for anyone with a domain account to

log on to any computer in the domain with a single account, a process called

single sign-on. Each user does not need a separate local account stored on

every computer. User authentication through the single domain account

enables access to all machines on the domain, thus the term single sign-on.

If you have a single computer storing all the domain user names and

passwords, why not take it one step higher and store information about the

domain, including printer information, computer names, location information

—anything you might need to define the entire network. Modern versions of

Windows use an Active Directory domain to accomplish these tasks.

To use a domain on a network of Windows machines, for example, you

must have a computer running a version of Windows Server (see Figure 19-

35). Windows Server is a completely different, much more powerful, and

much more expensive version of Windows. You then need to promote the

server to a domain controller. This creates the Active Directory.

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