[wolfshade]

i use renuser app to rename the admin user created by default but the dir in C:\Documents and Settings stays the same name "Administrator" -- at what point and how can i rename this dir too?

[GreenMachine]

Rename user before reboot (e.g. CMDLINES.TXT, not GuiRunOnce), and the directory will have the correct name.

[wolfshade]

Dang not the cmdlines again i have to mke a new test righ about now with [COMMANDS] instaed of [Commands] and "installs.cmd" instead of ".\installs.cmd" cuz the last time cmdlines didn't run at all. What i read it has something to do with sysprep.inf wich doesn't exist in my unattend at all.

[GreenMachine]

As you like ... but I would (and did) master the CMDLINES stuff before going on to the next step. I prefer to spend the efforts resolving the problem than looking for the work around. In the end, I always find it easier for this tired brain to follow ...

[wolfshade]

lemme get this straight will the setup see my other NTFS partitions during T-12 stage(cmdlines)???

[GreenMachine]

Yes

[rustycaps]

Is it alright to add/ask something in here as an extra question relating to the main one?

As GreenMachine said a few posts ago,

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Rename user before reboot (e.g. CMDLINES.TXT, not GuiRunOnce), and the directory will have the correct name.

will this have any effect on the winnt.sif autologon as admin routine, as the admin account has been renamed?

Or would I just add the line "AccountName" = "rusty" for example, where rusty is the renamed administrator account?

[wolfshade]

the effect on me is that i receive an error message that it cannot log under current user/domain or something with the password when i rename the Administrator account and the reg tweak doesn't work either

i guess i have to do the setup w/o setting password and set passworf from batch in GUIRunOnce.

\/\/ well no if u rename the admin somehow the path stick allthough the dir names doesn't change from admin to username(u have to set that name in cmdlines so the dir will auto change too\/\/

This post has been edited by wolfshade: 13 June 2004 - 03:15 AM

[rustycaps]

I was mainly thinking of it's effect on the admin autologon, but then I remembered that I have a reg file that sets the shell folders, i.e. favorites, My Documents, etc, and most of the entries in it are c:\d&s\administrator, so would I just need to change them to the new username for them to work then? I suppose I could just have them in %userprofile% mode instead, as that's what the UserShellFolders reg entry has.

[<SparTacuS>]

Can I just put all your minds at rest?

If you follow the section in the official guide
Here
and do it exactly as it says it will all work perfectly.
The main Admin account is removed, a new one created with your name, and this account is the one used for all the subsequent autologons etc.

[Alanoll]

i surely hope you honestly believe if you follow that page exactly, that your Administrator accout is removed.....

[wolfshade]

so what are u saying allanol is that i can't simply rename the administrator account but i have to make a user member of administrators and delete\disable or something the administrator account somehow?

[Alanoll]

deleting the account is easy.....
and you could go that route...

but I was just commenting to <SparTacuS> who though creating a new one meant the Administrator account went bye bye. it doesn't.

[wolfshade]

I tested what <SparTacuS> said (http://unattended.ms...p/autologon.htm) and it went O.K. but what u said Allanol is that the "Administartor" account is still out here(ready to be hacked) -- i found that the administartor is administartor stays on(built-in).

I wonder why i simply can't rename it and use it???

this administrator account seems to me to be an invitation for "Guest administrators" worldwide

This post has been edited by wolfshade: 13 June 2004 - 10:47 PM

[wolfshade]

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deleting the account is easy.....

HOW??? it saiz its built-in and cannot be deleted.

I can disable it but wont it have side effects like what user will i use in repair console when it asks???:

net user administrator /active:no

and what effect will it have if i use this before anything in cmdlines.txt(will it affect the "default user"?)

EDITED:about the one below:LOL i never thought of renaming administartor to guest at t-12 stage but i don't think it will work...
...I want just an account:MINE!

This post has been edited by wolfshade: 13 June 2004 - 11:48 PM

[rustycaps]

Or, if you follow the method mentioned to create the new admin account to use for yourself, can't the default admin account be renamed to guest (which gets disabled anyway, or is there a guest account at that stage too?), or even guest 2 or something, with some ridiculously long forgetable password, i.e. iudkfdvkbkb or some random alpha/numeric/symbolic sequence. I suppose you could set the long admin password through winnt.sif as mentioned in the autologon page linked, so that it will still logon as the new user but have the admin account as well.

[<SparTacuS>]

My appologies folks - a complete brainfart from me!
No, of course, the Administrator account is NOT removed. I was looking at my test rig whilst it was logged on under the new user and, of course, the Admin doesn't show up there.

[Alanoll]

to delete the Admin account, you rename and delete like any other account.

I've never had to go into Recover Console. My Unattended CD is my recovery console

There is a reason why in Windows 2003 its REQUIRED that you enter an Admin password. XP you can just leave it blank. Always put a password even if you don't use it.


as for Default User, Admin is create from Default User, not the other way around.

[rustycaps]

I tried the autologon method mentioned on the main unattended site, with some slight changes which I didn't think would have an effect, and it didn't work properly, and came up with runonceex saying I needed admin rights, even though I had added the new account through cmdlines.txt.

[COMMANDS]
"RunOnceEx.cmd"
"adduser.cmd"
"source.cmd"

and adduser.cmd

net user rustyone "insert password" /add
net localgroup Administrators rustyone /add
net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited
REGEDIT /S autologon.reg
EXIT

I did have a line in there to rename the administrator account to guest2, which did work, but the add user to admin group didn't. I also had a password specified in winnt.sif, as that tutorial mentioned that it didn't affect the autologon user.

Can anyone see what/where I did/went wrong?

[wolfshade]

Here's the link to a thread of mine where i posted some stuff cuz i had some problems:

http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=21359

I don't use RunEX cuz it seems to complicated for me -- just cmdlines mostly and cuz i have some problems maybe GUIRunOnce.