If your using Windows Server 2008 like I do at work, you’ll know that can control who can and can’t login to your machine.

However, if you ever need to emulate another user’s login in order to access a network share, you may come across the following error:

Logon Failure: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.

What this is saying is that the user you are trying to log in as haven’t got permission to login to your machine. To fix this, all you need to do is go into your Administrative Tools and click on Local Security Policy.

Local Security Policy

From there, select Local Policies and then User Rights Assignment and in ‘Allow log on locally’ add the user you are wanting to be.

Local Security Policy 2

Then it should all work beautifully!