Help on creating administrative account.

[Song Lin]

Hi, all

I am using XPE first release (not SP1), and I am building
a image with "Explorer Shell" and "Windows Logon". I
disselected the options "Show Friendly Winlogon"
and "Welcome to Windows" screen before Winlogon"
for "Windows
Logon".

I would like to create an administrative account with
username "thisuser" and password "helpme". I tried
the following steps, but it did not work:

1. Create a component called "myAdminAccount" in CD, set
its "Prototype" to "Administrative Account";

2. In "Advanced Properties" of
component "myAdminAccount", add three Extended Properties
entries:

Name Format Value

CmiUserPassword String helpme
cmiUserName String thisuser
cmiUserGroup Integer 1

3. Save the work in CD and add it into database;
4. Add the component into my configuration in TD, and
buid run-time image.

After the FBA rehearsal, the system boots up with a log
in prompt, showing username as "thisuser" and
asks me to input password. However, it does not accept
password "helpme" as I set before.

I can log in with username "Administrator" and
password "helpme". After login, i run "computer
management"
but only find that only two accounts exist there, "guest"
and "administrator". But how come the system logon
windows already has username "thisuser" typed in there?

Could anyone help me on this?

Thanks!

Song

 

[Lynda Allen [MS]]

Song,

Did you try modifying the advaced properties of the Administrator account
component to include your admin user name and password? You can also add one
or more User Account components and tweak passwords and user group settings
there as well.
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Hope this helps,

Lynda

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[Song Lin]

-----Original Message-----
Song,

Did you try modifying the advaced properties of the Administrator account
component to include your admin user name and password? You can also add one
or more User Account components and tweak passwords and user group settings
there as well.

Thanks for reply, Lynda.

Yes, I did. I tried it before I used the method as
explained in my post. The results are the same.

I also tried to use "net.exe" utility as FBA generic
command, as the follows:

REM create account
C:\windows\system32\net.exe thisuser /add
REM add user to administrator group
C:\windows\system32\net.exe localgroup administrators
thisuer /add

However, in executing the second operation, command
returns error message as "missing 2 files". I used
Dependency Walker 2.1 to check the required module, and
it seemed that I have included all the required files.
(My footprint is pretty large caz I run Oracle8i on my
image.)

Still not any lucky!

Anyway, thanks for your help!

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

Song,
Please try this:
1. Add a User Account component to your configuration - Do not use the
custom component you created, it won't work.
2. Modify the User Account advanced cmi property values in TD to read the
following:
- cmiUserName = "Song"
- cmiUserPassword = "Test"
- cmiUserGroup = "1"
3. Re-run check dependency and redeploy the runtime, there will be a new
account added to the administrator group (Group #1) called Song.

The User Account component is one of the few components you can add as many
instances as you like without causing conflicts. If you want to create 10
more users, simply add 10 more User Account components and modify those
values ablove to read whatever you prefer.

cmiUserGroup 1 = Admin group
cmiUserGroup 2 = Power User group
cmiUserGroup 3 = User group
cmiUserGroup 4 = Guest group

Do not try to make your own user account components, it's causing you more
issues than it's resolving.
Thanks

 

[Song Lin]

Yes, this works. I only tried it with
component "administrative account", not the user account".

Thank you very much for your help, Andy.

Song