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Username differences between NT & 2K

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by masperring2003 1 view

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I have been the network manager at a large School in London for the past 5 years. this year we have upgraded to Win 2K. This is where the problem exists. Our NT usernames are of the order 99SurnameInitial of firstname, fine on Nt, but not allowed on 2K! We are using NTusermanager to import 270 pupils per year, this has worked fine for the last 4 years. when we tried to use the program for the 2K server, it reset polices and other file, AGHHHH! How can I use the program NTusermanager to add this years intake. We are using Win XP Pro on one site and Win 98 on the other. Help please.
Malcolm S. BA

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by voldar

W2K user names can have up to 15 characters (16 -1) so there is no problem to implement what you had on the previous version of windows. The problem is that you can not user NTusermanager to add users in a AD environment. For that you have to use the csvd or ldifde command lines. Before doing that you have to create the OUs.
If you type :ldifde -i -f users.txt you'll import the users in AD from the users.txt file.
An example of what users.txt may look like is here:

DN: CN=James Smith,OU=System,DC=school,DC=local,DC=my
objectclass: user
samAccountName: James
userPrincipalName: James@school.local.my
displayName: James Smith
userAccountControl: 512

Attention: 512 = account is enabled
514 = account is disabled

This is an example for a domain "school.local.my"

Each user information should be separated by a blank line.

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