Yes. In most small companies I've seen, people have their own computers and don't use other peoples' machines. They will typically have only one account with Admin privileges if it's a small company, or one or two accounts for general users and an Admin account controlled by the IT shop if it's bigger or better run. It's only when you get to medium-sized to large businesses, say 50-100 machines, that you routinely find domain controllers and roaming user profiles.
Great numbers of machines have only one account with Admin privileges and automatic login.
-ccm
He didn’t believe me. Maybe he’ll believe you...
And, of course, the headaches those people can have (and pass on to their IT consultant) are absolutely incredible. :P
I understand there’s a lot of small networks out there like that. I just don’t buy that those networks and the management costs of changing them over to this “Windows-on-Mac” model can be extrapolated to make assumptions about how it will work on a network of thousands of machines, with corporate security requirements.
I consider a Workgroup shop with few enough PCs to have their tech support outsourced to Geed Squad to be on the low end of “small”. That model falls apart well before you get to “medium”, IMHO.