Two words:
ADSI.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Dionne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:04 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Adding users in Windows 2000
>
>
> To start, it is good to be on topic again.
>
> My question is regarding adding users in Windows 2000. We
> recently moved
> our network from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 (Servers and
> Workstations).
> We use scripts to add our class user accounts using the NET command as
> follows:
>
> net user <username> <password> /add
> net group <groupname> <username> /add /domain
> .
> .
> .
> .
>
> for each user we wish to add. We use a home grown Visual
> Basic program do
> create the scripts.
>
> This kind of script worked fine for Windows NT 4.0, however
> here is the
> problem with Windows 2000.
>
> Windows 2000 has two different logon names, A Windows 2000
> dns based login
> name in the form of <username>@domain.org. There is also a
> Pre-Windows
> 2000 login name that consists of the NETBIOS NAME\Username.
> In our case a
> user name for jsmith would be both in the form of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CS2\jsmith.
>
> When the script utilizing net user command is used the user
> is created, but
> it does not fill in the name for the DNS version of the login
> name. So on
> the account tab of a users properties the User login name
> field is empty.
>
> This has resulted in some of the users having intermittent
> trouble logging
> into the domain. An error message comes up saying the domain
> cannot be
> found. Once the user name for the DNS logon is set the user
> can login just
> fine.
>
> Has anyone seen this error? Is there a new version of the
> NET command out
> there with better parameters? Also to note I have converted
> my servers to
> Native Mode, no more NT around at all.
> Because we make hundreds of new accounts every semester I
> would like to find
> a way to make the NET USER command run properly in Windows 2000.
>
> Mahalo
>
> Carl
>
>
>
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