DOH .... what a morning ... had to reboot a 3com 3300 switch
 
Never mind ... 8)

Yeah that site as been in my bookmarks for probably a couple of years ... only thing is ... I never even bothered to THINK to search that topic ....
 
You have given me a good arsenal for some remote management and batch work
 
Loads his script gun

All,
 
Jerolds site is very good for a vast source of tips and tricks and registyr hacks, also take a look at tip 6000.
 

www.pukka.com has a program called netuser which is a great alternative to "net user" in that you can reset, unlock, change passwords and create accounts on remote machines. It's a very useful tool which doesn't have the limitations of the the net user coommand. It is shareware and not freeware but IMHO, it's a resource any system admin should have a copy of. A simple batch file can change the local admin password on you entire domain.
 
command line response follows

Quote:The syntax of this command is:
 
NETUSER [-a|-c|-x|-f] UserName [/d:[T|F]] [/f:fullname] [/D:Home dir DRIVE]
[/e:expires MMDDYYYY] [/g:description] [/h:home directory] [/m:[T|F]] [/p:password]
[/q:profile] [/s:script] [/s:servername] [/u:[T|F]] [/w:[T|F]]
 
NETUSER adds or updates the UserName user-id.
-a Adds user-id to the system. Aborts if user exists.
-c Updates a user-id based on the settings given.
-f Finds a user by searching in the username, fullname and
description for the text specified by UserName.
-x Adds user-id to the system if it doesn't exist, otherwise
changes the specified user-id.
-r Register this tool with netuser -r code
/d:[T|F] Sets user-id to DISABLED if TRUE,
ENABLED if FALSE.
/D:Drive letter sets DRIVE letter for the user (e.g. H .
/e:expires specifies when the account will expire, format : MMDDYYYY
/f:fullname Sets user's full name. When entering full-names
& descriptions, use "quotes" to seperate spaces.
/g:descript Sets user's description.
/h:home drive Sets the drive to map the home drive letter to.
/l:[T] Unlocks a locked out account.
/m:[T|F] Sets the 'user must change password at next logon' switch.
/p:password Sets the user-id password.
/q:profile Sets the user's profile.
/s:script Sets the user's Script file.
/S:servername Determines the machine on which the user is to be administered.
/u:[T|F] Sets the 'user cannnot change password' switch.
/w:[T|F] Sets the 'password never expires' switch.
 
NOTE: the /m:T and /s:T switches must not be used simultaneously.
the /m:T and /w:T switches must not be used simultaneously.
the /m:T switch doesn't work if user's password is set to never expire.
 
 
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