How do i Create new users with a .bat file in Windows xp?

Vaughanschoeman

can anyone help me, i need to add many of the same users onto several PC's so i want to create a .bat file that i run on each pc

But i want the users to be part of the guest account only, also the 'User Cannot Change Password' and 'Password never expires' Must be ticked

i have been able to add a user using this command that i found online:

but that puts them in the Administrators group and they are allowed to change passwords

please

Strider

What if you remove the line net localgroup administrators User1 /add from the batch script?

Here is a neat net command reference:

http://ss64.com/nt/net_useradmin.html

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tbam88

Replace the code in your BAT file with the lines below. This will create a "Limited Account" With NO password.


@echo off
start
net user /add User1
net localgroup guest User1 /add
net share concfg=C:\ /grant:User1, limited

dolreich_c

Hi ,

Are you using Active Directory? If so, DSADD is the right tool.

Create an Excel spreadsheet with 2 tabs. One tab (UserInformation) is populated with the following column names in ROW1 (the values by each are the formulas in row 2 - if not a data string value):
A- SAM Name
B- FirstName
C- LastName
D- Description
E- Password
F- UPN = =A2&"@xx.company.com"
G- Display = =B2&" "&C2
H- Office
I- Email = =B2&"."&C2&"@xx.company.com"
J- MustChangePwd = yes/no
K- Disabled = yes/no
L- LoginScript = login.bat
M- cn= =A2
N- ou= =users
O- ou= =newOU
P- dc= =xx
Q- dc= =company
R- dc= =com
S- -samid =A2
T- -upn =CONCATENATE(AE2&F2&AE2)
U- -fn =CONCATENATE(AE2&B2&AE2)
V- -ln =CONCATENATE(AE2&C2&AE2)
W- -desc =CONCATENATE(AE2&D2&AE2)
X- -display =CONCATENATE(AE2&B2&" "&C2&AE2)
Y- -pwd =E2
Z- -office =H2
AA- -email =CONCATENATE(AE2&I2&AE2)
AB- -loscr =L2
AC- -mustchpwd =J2
AD- -disabled =K2
AE- "

Create as many rows as necessary in this for each of the users. A second tab would be named DSadduserTemplate and the contents of row 2 and below would be:
="dsadd user cn="&UserInformation!M2&",ou="&UserInformation!N2& ",ou="&UserInformation!O2&",dc="&UserInformation!P 2&",dc="&UserInformation!Q2&",dc="&UserInformation !R2&" -samid "&UserInformation!S2&" -upn "&UserInformation!T2&" -fn "&UserInformation!U2&" -ln "&UserInformation!V2&" -desc "&UserInformation!W2&" -display "&UserInformation!X2&" -pwd "&UserInformation!Y2&" -office "&UserInformation!Z2&" -email "&UserInformation!AA2&" -loscr "&UserInformation!AB2&" -mustchpwd "&UserInformation!AC2&" -disabled "&UserInformation!AD2

Copy this down as many rows as needed. Once this information is populated with values from the UserInformation tab, you can copy this to a BAT or CMD file and execute. Modify as needed to change values for groups.

The command actually looks something like:
dsadd user cn=0,ou=users,ou=YOUROU,dc=xx,dc=company,dc=com -samid 0 -upn @xx.company.com -fn 0 -ln 0 -desc "" -display " " -pwd changeme -office Location -tel 0 -email .@xx.company.com.com -loscr login.bat -mustchpwd No -disabled Yes

We created the new users as disabled so we could add them to groups as needed and then train them on how to use their new logins.

Good luck

Cheers

horheg

For creating local users try out tbam88's advice.
If the PC's you want to create users on are part of the same domain you could create them only once:
Create new NETWORK users using BATCH FILE in XP...? - Yahoo! Answers