Unattended windows2000

[cometoluc]

Hello,

Sorry i made a new topic, but i did not know where the best place was to put it in.

I am trying to make a unattended windows 2000 installation cd and automatically create a user without a password who will be automatically logged in and install a few applications also automatically.

I have tried it using the guide for the windows XP unattended creation wich works verry well, but in windows2000 it does not seem to work. Auto login of the user and installing the applications for that user does not work. Registering also does not seem to work.

There are so many topics where some answers are but i do not find a explenation to what to do and do it right so it would work.

Please help this user who is trying but can not get it to work.

greetz

[Sie Tjin Kian]

Hi cometoluc,

you don't have to wonder. You say:

...automatically create a user without a password who will be automatically logged in and install a few applications also automatically

The user have no password, thats all! I think you didn't use a blank password, you use a * and that means at first login it would ask for a password. Whatever, better you try this:

create a user with a password

give him administrator rights

set registry autologin for this user

reboot machine and make your unattended installations

if you don't want to have user with a password, maybe for give your cd away, then delete the user after the installations are done.

greez, Sie Tjin Kian

[cometoluc]

Hello,

i have tried it with making a user with a pasword but the administrator starts up always.

in my $OEM$ direktory these files reside :

autologon.reg

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

"DefaultUserName"="user"

"DefaultPassword"="12345678"

cmdlines.txt

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[COMMANDS]

"useraccounts.cmd"

useraccounts.cmd

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net user user 12345678 /add

net localgroup Administrators user /add

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

REGEDIT /S autologon.reg

EXIT

under the $OEM$\$1\install my start.cmd

start.cmd

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CLS

@echo off

TITLE Windows 2ooo Pro - Unattended Installation

ECHO.

ECHO Installing SID Changer

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\applications\newsid\newsid.exe

EXIT

in the i386 direktory is my winnt.sif

winnt.sif

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;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

UnattendSwitch="yes"

NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1

TargetPath=\WINNT

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=105

Autologon=Yes

AutologonCount=0

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

FullName=User

ComputerName=pc

[Display]

BitsPerPel=16

Xresolution=1024

YResolution=768

Vrefresh=60

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

SystemLocale=00000813

UserLocale=00000813

InputLocale=0813:00000813

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WERKGROEP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

-----------------------------------------------------------

i hope someone can see what i have been doing wrong

[KoppieKoffie]

I will try to see what I can do. I do have one other question that may be you can answer?

Putting the winnt.sif in my i386 folder works perfectly fine during my winxp installation but this doesn't seem to work with my win2000 installation.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I supposed to delete files in i386 folder to let winnt.sif work?? What can I overlook in this relatively simple process??

Thanks in advance.....

Greetz

[cometoluc]

Sometimes there is a file winnt.si_ in the 386 direktory, you should remove this one

[schalti]

--------------> [GuiUnattended]

--------------> AutologonCount=0

This is the mistake.

Windows 2000 and XP will only autologin as many times as you set this value to, no matter what you write to the registry.

So if you want to autologin twice, you have to set it to a value of 2.

It is not possible to set it, for example, to 1 and then put the information for the next autologin in the registry. It then will NOT autologin a second time.