How to setup a ADS system account?

Do you just want an account that has privlidges across the network?

I guess so..yes. It neeeds to be able to run a program that is scheduled and must have system priviledges on each local machine.

Hmm, that might be a bit hard. There actually isn't a "system" group on a Windows 2K machine. You would probably need to creat a domain account and add it to the local administrators group and run it like that. I normally don't do things like that so maybe someone else may have a better suggestion.

Thats exactly what I am looking for...simple 1. 2. 3. steps to set up the account for domain wide in active directory.

Thank you. That is exactly what I wanted...but is it not possible to set up a domain wide service account. This is for a centralised Sophos AV and it needs some sytem priviledges to run.
Are you suggesting I create some sort of Domain Group called say Sophos, with Admin or Power user rights that can run with the necessary rights on each client machine????

Or, you can either give the account you create domain admin or account operator privlidges, whichever works best, but don't give out the account information to anyone and this would work also.