Choosing admin account for SBS 2008
Hi experts,
When I ran SBS 2003, my default Admin account that I used was:
Username: Administrator
Passwd: *******9
I could log into the server using my domain admin account:
Username: xxxxxx
Passwd: *******8
There may have been a built-in Administrator account.
Now with SBS 2008, it is asking for an admin account. It is a little different, so I am confused.
The window asks for a first name, last name, user name and passwords:
Do I put my name and my username which will be the same I used before? Or do I put something like SBS for first name and Administrator for second name and then put Administrator for user name with a different password than mine? I did try that and it wouldn't allow Administrator, because it matched the built-in username which it won't allow me to use anyway. I am completely confused. What I want to do is log in with:
Username: Administrator
Passwd: xxxxxxx9
I know I can log onto the server using my account as I did with SBS 2003, but it will be a different profile.
So, for now, I chose:
Username: admin
Passwd: xxxxxxx8
Am I making too much of this? What would be best practices. I know I should probably have an admin account and run under a account with non-admin privileges.
Thanks in advance.
When I ran SBS 2003, my default Admin account that I used was:
Username: Administrator
Passwd: *******9
I could log into the server using my domain admin account:
Username: xxxxxx
Passwd: *******8
There may have been a built-in Administrator account.
Now with SBS 2008, it is asking for an admin account. It is a little different, so I am confused.
The window asks for a first name, last name, user name and passwords:
Do I put my name and my username which will be the same I used before? Or do I put something like SBS for first name and Administrator for second name and then put Administrator for user name with a different password than mine? I did try that and it wouldn't allow Administrator, because it matched the built-in username which it won't allow me to use anyway. I am completely confused. What I want to do is log in with:
Username: Administrator
Passwd: xxxxxxx9
I know I can log onto the server using my account as I did with SBS 2003, but it will be a different profile.
So, for now, I chose:
Username: admin
Passwd: xxxxxxx8
Am I making too much of this? What would be best practices. I know I should probably have an admin account and run under a account with non-admin privileges.
Thanks in advance.
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It basically uses the same window that it uses to make user accounts in SBS 2003, e.g.
John Smith
username: jsmith
passwd: xxxxx
It was just a bit different. So, it suggested giving it a first name of SBS and a last name of Administrator (see there it is already different: giving the admin account (the second account that p-nuts suggested), a name. So when you go to log in, it says. SBSAdministrator (Contuso\admin), etc. So, that was my basic question.
Thanks again.