davePremium,MVM
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| reply to tjack
waffle about directories You're looking at 'directories', not 'accounts'. There's a difference.
Typically, the directory is created the first time the user logs on to the machine. So when user 'dave' logs on, C:\Documents and Settings\dave gets created.
If, later, user dave from domain X (written X\dave) logs on, then directory 'dave' is already taken. So the system will create 'dave.something-or-other'. The actual name of the directory does not matter to the system - it doesn't even need to contain the username, it's merely traditional to do so. Thereafter, X\dave will get directory dave.somethingorother on tjis machine.
Note that X\dave is not even an account on the local machine - it's a domain account (which only works if the local machine is a member of domain X or a domain that trusts X).
Suppose, alternatively, that the local account 'dave' gets deleted but no-one deletes the directory 'dave'. Later, a new local account 'dave' gets created - this is completely unrelated to the previous one. Once again, directory 'dave' is take, so 'dave.somethingelse' is used instead. |
