maui

maybe this can help you out:

also handy is this tool i made (still needs a bit tweaking and bugfixing): http://home.hccnet.nl/mvanrijnen/pages/useradd

Ok, but now you have al kinds of things on your unattended cd. I plan to use my little tool so i need only 1 unattended CD, and put all kinds of simple configuration options on a file on floppy disk. So if i have to install a computer, just have to edit the 'users.ini', and boot the CD. I will take a look to automate computernaming (random or bases on MAC). Maybe i'll put in a naming service, so you can have a db on the backend, the installation connects with the db and give's the computer the name as specified in the db. So the sysadmin can set this things from his chair. Identification would be done bases on MAC then.

Ok, it's in (computername), i'm gonna find out for the description also. You can find it on: http://home.hccnet.nl/mvanrijnen/pages/useradd

Hi, I'm currently busy with a small program which will add a few features to the unattended installs, i call it 'useradd' at the moment, and it's first meaning was to easy create users and groups with an unattended install. I will checkout if it's possible to add the computer's name (and workgroup) with it, maybe even hanging the computer in a domain? It's not 100% finished yet (the productkey option doesnot work). It's very easy you just make an ini file and put it on floppy, the inifile looks like this: [WINDOWS] PRODUCTKEY=type here the wanted product key ! XP Volume licensing only !! ADMINPASSWORD=type here the wanted administrator password [GROUPS] ;GroupName=Group Description MyFirstGroup=This is my first group MySecondGroup=This is my second group [uSERS] ;username=password[,fullname,description] MyFirstUser=MyPassWord,My First User, This Is My First User MySecondUser=MyPassWord,My Second User, This Is My Second User [GROUPUSERS] ;groupname=user1,user2,user3,... MyFirstGroup=MyFirstUser,MySecondUser MySecondGroup=MySecondUser You then put the useradd.exe in the $oem folder, and refer to it from the cmdlines.txt file, like this: [COMMANDS] "useradd.exe" The program will check all available drives for a x:\users.ini and process the options found on it. Users and Groups allready work, even the Administrator Passworrd. I will check this weekend for the computername etc.