Username Has Domain Name

On some machines c windows users lists the domain users for that machine as simply their username but on some other machines the same user is shown as username domainname.

Username has domain name. Server 2016 windows 10 wkstations that are all joined to the same domain. Drive to a share on another computer but i don t use my current credentials i specify a different domain and user to map the drive. Also the default behavior for a profile path has always been based on the user name not the username domain convention which seems to signify a problem. These are created when the user logging on to the system has a local username profile folder on that system but does not have a registry profile.

And it becomes even more cluttered when you start seeing. Using windows 7 enterprise with sp1 but i m hoping to get a generic answer that would apply to windows xp 2003 2008 vista 7. Somehow i thought usernames without the domai. Our computer name and domain were set by the system admin in the company.

Click the start and control panel if you are using the classic start menu click on start menu settings and control panel. Each college school administrative department or other unit has its own third level domain name such as arts cornell edu. I believe this is so because there is no guarantee that the two domain names are the same in the different formats. I was curious what is my computer name and fall under which domain group.

The unit may make its own rules for assigning four part domain names such as www arts cornell edu. I m responding in this edit as everyone who has replied has the same basic idea. Username domain profiles or username local for non domain workgroup pcs literally include the domain name they belong to i e. So i did a check on my laptop btw i am running windows xp professional.

From a command prompt i execute a net use command to map the z.