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Thanks for the help. &nbsp;Your time and assistance are greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for the help.  Your time and assistance are greatly appreciated.

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Hello gang and as always thanks for the time and expertise. <br />
My enviornment is a windows shop: &nbsp;clients have windows xp sp3 and servers are primarily windows server 2003 with some server 2008. &nbsp;the FSMO role holder is windows server 2003.<br />
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Let me try and be more clear with my question and maybe I'm being an idiot. &nbsp;We have a single domain with multiple sites. &nbsp;I've noticed that on pcs in this domain, domain accounts show up on computers in documents and settings, and I know for a fact those users have never logged onto those accounts. &nbsp;Why do these accounts propogate to computers that they've never logged onto and is there a way to stop that. &nbsp;In other words, John Doe logs onto his computer but his account shows up on 30 computers. &nbsp;Is this good or bad or indifferent and can I stop this. &nbsp;Thanks guys. &nbsp;Your help is always much appreciated.
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Hello gang and as always thanks for the time and expertise. 
My enviornment is a windows shop:  clients have windows xp sp3 and servers are primarily windows server 2003 with some server 2008.  the FSMO role holder is windows server 2003.

Let me try and be more clear with my question and maybe I'm being an idiot.  We have a single domain with multiple sites.  I've noticed that on pcs in this domain, domain accounts show up on computers in documents and settings, and I know for a fact those users have never logged onto those accounts.  Why do these accounts propogate to computers that they've never logged onto and is there a way to stop that.  In other words, John Doe logs onto his computer but his account shows up on 30 computers.  Is this good or bad or indifferent and can I stop this.  Thanks guys.  Your help is always much appreciated.

is there a way to prevent domain accounts from showing up on all computers - win 2003

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Network Management involves issues that are independent of specific hardware or software, including email policies, upgrade planning, backup scheduling and working with managed service providers for Desktop-As-A-Service (DaaS), Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) and the like through the use of tools, coupled with manufacturer standards, best practice guidelines, policies and procedures plus all other relevant documentation. Network management also includes monitoring, alerting and reporting, management reporting, planning for device or service updates, the backup of configurations, the setting of key performance indicators and measures (KPIs/KPMs), associated service level agreements and problem records as part of the IT Service Management (ITSM) framework.