Weird user group issue

[Phoneywar]

I encountered a rather weird issue yesterday.

Using nLite to create an unattended install CD for XP Home SP1a slipstreamed with SP3. If I assign the same name to both the machine and the new user being created by the unattended install process, the user is not created as a member of the Administrators group, only as a member of Users.

Changing either the machine name or the user name resolves this issue.

Anyone else encountered this?

[CoffeeFiend]

It's surprising it will even let you create the user in the first place. Go in the user manager, and try creating a user with the same name as the compute name, it won't let you.

[Phoneywar]

Ah... I rather suspected this was a windows issue. The names are being entered during the unattended install configuration phase of nLite which is probably how it's getting past XP's own checking mechanism. I don't normally use the same name for both, which of course is why I've never encountered this before, but this was a special build for someone else.