Help creating a user.

[gsandan]

Windows isn't creating a user unattended. Here are my files. (*s used to hide sensitive data)

\I386\Winnt.sif

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=0
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    UnattendSwitch="Yes"

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=4
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    ProductKey=*****-*****-*****-*****-*****
    FullName="***** ******"
    OrgName=""
    ComputerName=Compaq

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=32
    Xresolution=1024
    YResolution=768

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=1
    Dialing=Tone
    AreaCode=818

[RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=2,1

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=Home

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]
    msmsgs=off
    msnexplr=off
    freecell=off
    hearts=off
    minesweeper=off
    pinball=off
    solitaire=off
    spider=off
    zonegames=off
    AccessOpt=off
    fp_extensions=off
    media_clips=off
    rec=off

[GuiRunOnce]
   %systemdrive%\install\batch.bat

[Shell]
   DefaultStartPanelOff=yes

\$OEM$\cmdlines.txt

.\user.cmd

\$OEM$\user.cmd

CLS
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Adding Default User...
net user ***** ****** /add
net localgroup "administrators" User /add
ECHO.
ECHO Applying Root Registry Tweaks...
REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\Reg_Root_Tweaks.reg
ECHO.
EXIT

\$OEM$\$1\install\Reg_Root_Tweaks.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

;This will allow you to autologin.
;Replace InsertName value with the Username you want to autologin with.
;Replace InsertPassword value with the password corresponding to the Username specified.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="***** ******"
"DefaultPassword"=""
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

[GreenMachine]

The syntax to add the user is correct, asuming that the first set of "sensitive data" is the user name, and the second set is the password. If you have a blank in the user name that would be a problem. Use quotes.

Unless you created a user name "User", the command to add the user to the Administrators group cannot work. Should be:

NET LOCALGROUP Administrators ***** /ADD

(or possibly)

NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "***** ******" /ADD

The group (Administrators in this case) does not need quotes if it has no blank in it.

Debug it yourself! This is just a batch commad, and as such can be run from a command prompt window. If there is an error, it will indicate it to you.

[Black Thought]

Hello everybody

[this is my first post here ]

In my former Windows XP Super CD, i used to write this :

NET USER User Password /ADD

NET LOCALGROUP group User /ADD

where User is the user name, between "" if it is composed of 2 words or more,

Password ... follows the same rule

and Group is the user group, such as "administrators"...

PS : Excuse-me for my poor english, but it is not my mother tongue so... i've to work on it

[gsandan]

OK. But will the user be added after the Windows XP setup?

EX:

Setup is finished.

v

Computer reboots after setup has finished.

v

Computer boots into the new user account created.

[webmedic]

right here I show you how i do it and it works every time. you even autologin as the user.

http://board.MSFN.org/index.php?showtopic=8632

[kenneth11zz]

Does this create two user accounts with the same username? One is created in the user.cmd and then later create another same user account that is specified in the

[userData]

ProductKey=removed

FullName="Sky"

OrgName="Home"

ComputerName=Skyee

-Kenneth

[GreenMachine]

The UserData section of WINNT.SIF specifies the Registered User Information, not a Windows User Account, thus the code above does not create an account. Furthermore, it is impossible to create 2 accounts with the same name.

[kenneth11zz]

I see... The reason that I'm asking is because last night, when I do my first test on my unattended file, I notice in the user profile folder, there is two user accounts called Sky and Sky.Sky profile is created.

In my unattended file, I specified UnattendSwitch="Yes" instead of UnattendSwitch="No". Also, I'm not using the cmd.txt that you guys suggested yet on my first test. The only reason that I could come up with is that the user account was created automatically the UserData section and then tring to create the same Sky in Welcome Screen that I inputted and didn't prompt me any error but instead created Sky.Sky.

More testings to come...

-Kenneth