From: John Beckett 

I believe there is no check when adding a new user, to see if the user name
is the same as a computer name. That is, you can easily add a user with the
name of a computer. Try this at command prompt:

net user "%computername%" /add
net user "%computername%"
net user "%computername%" /delete

ISTR there is (or at least was under NT4) a noticeable error message,
probably on each reboot. The problem is quite benign, it just means you
can't receive 'net send' and similar messages sent to the user.

John

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news::
> Super-elementrary question:
>
> I just tripped over my second SBS (NT4) network.  It was apparently set up by
> the owner's husband, with mixed 98 and 2000 clients.  He's not stupid, just
> green.
>
> Somehow, the wild wizard/console/proxy-client environment that SBS provides
> let him name his workstations and his user accounts the same!  He has, for
> instance, a machine named Sturdley with a workstation username of Sturdley,
> who logs onto the domain (1 server) as Sturdley.
>
> I must have missed something in my haphazard forays through networking,
> because an NT machine has always slapped my wrist when I tried to do that.  I
> had to at least use a different workstation username.
>
> How'd he do it?  (He forgets, naturally.)
> --
>
> -Frank
>

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