Login into Network Workstation as Local Administrator

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Originally Posted by TmC

Is it possibile, using the Windows suggestions, to log as an Administrator on remote machines? Said in other words: Do REMOTECOMPUTERNAME\username allow someone to remotely log as a local user onto the remote machine? If so, what would the user be able to do? Would he be able to access the files in a network folder onto the remote computer bypassing the Domain Controller Authentication since he is seen as local user?

Let's say we have a system that's set up like so:

Workstation 1:
    Domain:    ACME
    Hostname:  LOCALWIN
    Users:     Administrator, Bob, Alice

And that the system allows for members of the Domain Users group to login to it.

If the domain policies (GPO, etc.) didn't forbid logging in via RDP, then I would be able to login to the remote system from my own system using the accounts LOCALWIN\Administrator, LOCALWIN\Bob, and LOCALWIN\Alice, as well as with accounts such as ACME\Steve. The account that I login as would have the same level of access as it would if I had logged in while physically sitting at that system, for the most part.