Creating Autoadminlogon in Win2000?

[Nils]

Hello,

I'm trying to create an admin account in W2000 from cmdlines.txt, then importing reg tweaks, and then rebooting. Most of it works, except that the autologon.reg doesn't get imported into the registry during the unattended setup, but instead the default Administrator account is in and asks for a password. The useraccounts.cmd is obviously executed because the user JH is added to the Administrators group.

After Windows is up, if I run useraccounts.cmd manually it gets imported, and after another reboot the desired user account with auto logon works. All the files listed are located in /$OEM$/ except for winnt.sif, which is in /i386/.

Any help would be appreciated.

WINNT.SIF:

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=1
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINNT
    UnattendSwitch="yes"
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=10
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    FullName="JH"
    ComputerName=W2000
    ProductID="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx"

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=4
    Xresolution=800
    YResolution=600
    Vrefresh=60

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=1
    AreaCode=406

[RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=1
    Language=00000409

[Components]
    pinball=off
    solitaire=off
    minesweeper=off
    freecell=off

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=W

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

cmdlines.txt:

[COMMANDS]
"useraccounts.cmd"
"RunOnceEx.cmd"

useraccounts.cmd:

net user JH /add
net localgroup Administrators JH /add
net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited
REGEDIT /S autologon.reg
EXIT

autologon.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="JH"
"DefaultPassword"=""
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

RunOnceEx.cmd:

cmdow @ /HID
@echo off

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications and Registry" /f

REG ADD %KEY%20 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f
REG ADD %KEY%20 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\regtweaks.reg" /f

REG ADD %KEY%30 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f
REG ADD %KEY%30 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\cleanup.cmd" /f

EXIT

Edited January 5, 2007 by Nils

[snooz]

I have only done unattended on Windows XP so I don't know if Windows 2000 is the same.

XP looks like this...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"DefaultUserName"="name"

"DefaultPassword"="pass"

"AutoLogonCount"="1"

"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword = pass

AutoLogon = YES

AutoLogonCount = 1

Your password needs to be the same in your sif and reg key. I don't think you can leave the password blank.

[Nils]

Thank you snooz for your reply.

Yes, it works fine for me also in Windows XP, it's only in Windows 2000 it doesn't work.

[snooz]

Thank you snooz for your reply.

Yes, it works fine for me also in Windows XP, it's only in Windows 2000 it doesn't work.

Good luck figuring it out.

[Oleg_II]

Nils

Interesting... I thought this tweak is not working because I'm using reduced with HFSLIP Windows 2000... And it appeared it just doesn't work in W2k

If you find the way let me know