Special Groups

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In addition to the default groups created on Windows NT Workstation, Windows NT Workstation uses four other special groups. You cannot assign users to these groups. That assignment happens as part of the Windows NT functionality. These special groups are as follows:

• Network
• Interactive
• Everyone
• Creator Owner

The Network group contains any user who is accessing this computer from across the network rather than sitting down at the computer locally. If Kelley is connecting to a shared printer on your Windows NT Workstation, for example, Kelley is part of the network group accessing your machine.

The Interactive group refers to the user who is logged on locally to the Windows NT workstation. Thus in the preceding example where Kelley is accessing your shared printer, on her own machine Kelley is logged on interactively, but to your machine she is part of the Network group.

Everyone refers to any user who accesses the Windows NT workstation. This includes all users defined on the computer or domain, as well as guests, interactive, network users, and users from other domains.

Creator Owner refers to the user account that created a resource, such as a file or printer. The Creator Owner automatically has full control over the resource that he created.