When Windows 7 is joined to a domain, the default login prompt automatically allows a domain user to login to the machine with just username/password. However, a local account user would need to know the name of the machine to login to the machine (i.e. machinename\user).
At least that's what I thought, until now. I don't always remember the name of the computer that I'm working on. The workaround the login prompt and not knowing the machine name is to substitute a period for the computer name. For example, if my machine name is PC-1 and my username is bobama, then for the username field, I would enter:
.\bobama (instead of PC-1\bobama)
Hope this helps someone. Happy computing.
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