Unable to change the password ?! :(

[Signal0101]

Hi guys. I am so close to being done with my personal unattended CD. I have slipstreamed SP1 and SP2 into it, however, I cannot get rid of this error no matter what. I tried changing admin password in winnt.sif to letters, numbers, and a "*" with no apparent luck. Please help.

[Aaron]

What exactly are you trying to do?

Paste a copy of your winnt.sif in

 tags.

[Signal0101]

I was trying to setup a default password for Administrator in the unattended install but now I don't care. I just want to remove that error that is preventing me from this installation actually being unattended.

winnt.sif

;SetupMgrTag[Data]    AutoPartition=0    MsDosInitiated="0"    UnattendedInstall="Yes"
[unattended]    UnattendMode=FullUnattended    OemSkipEula=Yes    OemPreinstall=Yes    UnattendSwitch="Yes"    TargetPath=\WINDOWS    FileSystem=*    Repartition=No    WaitForReboot="No"    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore    AutoActivate=No    KeyboardLayout="US"    OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\006\SI3112r;Drivers\007\broadcom"

[GuiUnattended]    AdminPassword=*    EncryptedAdminPassword=No    OEMSkipRegional=1    TimeZone=35    OemSkipWelcome=1
[userData]    ProductKey=(I put my product key here)    FullName="Mariusz"    OrgName=""    ComputerName=OPTERON848
[Display]    BitsPerPel = 16    Xresolution=1280    YResolution=1024
[TapiLocation]    CountryCode=1    AreaCode=732
[identification]    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP
[Networking]    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
[Components]    msmsgs=off    msnexplr=off
[GuiRunOnce]%systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

start.cmd

CLS@echo offTITLE Windows XP SP1 - Unattended Installation
ECHO.ECHO Over the next few minutes you will see automated installations ECHO of various sofware applications, windows updates, and registryECHO tweaks being implemented. The computer will restart automaticallyECHO once the whole process has finished!
ECHO.ECHO Removing useless shortcuts...DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk"DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk"
ECHO.ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks...REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\RegTweaks.reg
ECHO.ECHO Deleting ASP.NET User Account created by .NET Framework 1.1...net user aspnet /delete
ECHO.ECHO Deleting Temp Installation Files...RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\DriversRD /S /Q %systemdrive%\install
EXIT

[Signal0101]

Got it resolved. Apparently the ENCRYPTION TAG should be se to OFF.

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Yes. You should only turn it on if the password has been encrypted by the Answer File Setup, which you can find in the deployment tools.

grtz Bâshrat the Sneaky