Workgroup Managed User Script

[angrycomputingteacher]

Hello,

 

I run a workgroup of computers with something like 90 users. All home drives and areas are all stored on a NAS. I would much rather run a domain although we don't have the money or time to maintain this so for the foreseeable future were using workgroups. My only problem with workgroups is managing users. I would like to create a batch script that is scheduled at startup to load any new users created onto the computer. Although I'm not sure on how to achieve this. I also would need to assign Staff to their extra group.

 

Thanks in advance.

[mrwoberts]

Not entirely sure what you mean here.

 

is it, you want to create a local account on every PC, based on a 'list' of users - perhaps a text file somewhere?

Or, do you mean, create a list of user accounts on a particular PC and store that somewhere?

 

You know, a domain controller wouldn't take too much setting up, and you could pretty much use a regular PC if you had to.

Edited February 1, 2017 by mrwoberts

[angrycomputingteacher]

Yes, I would like to be able to create local users from data in a text file that also assigns them to a group.

 

I have thought about a domain enviromenyt but the SMT want it the way it is.

[mrwoberts]

Okay, is this what you want to do?

I'm not including the part where you fetch the text file and compare the users against the desired users list...

 

LAPTOP-012 (Existing user accounts)

Fred (administrators)

Bob (users)

Jenny (users)

Sally (administrators)

 

You want to create two new users on that PC, one admin, the other a standard user...

Tony (administrators)

Matthew (users)

 

To do that you would issue the following commands...

net user /add Tony 
net user /add Matthew 
net localgroup Administrators Tony /add

 

That would be the batch script way, but a VB or Powershell script would probably be better.

Here's a VB script for example...

[angrycomputingteacher]

I've tried the following, @echo off

net localgroup /add Staff

net localgroup Staff TestUser1 password /add

net localgroup Staff TestMeNow1 password2 /add

 

When I ran as admin on one of the machines it closed straight away. However tomorrow I will attempt using a powershell script.

[mrwoberts]

When I ran as admin on one of the machines it closed straight away. However tomorrow I will attempt using a powershell script

 

You need to place a

pause

at the end of your script, otherwise it will close straightaway - the command is not very difficult for the PC so it finishes almost instantly.

If you'd rather it just waited for ten seconds then closed, then add this instead

timeout /t 10

 

On closer inspection, you're not actually adding the users TestUser1, or TestMeNow1, like I showed you above. All you've done is create a group then tried to add two (existing) users to it. Is that what you wanted?

Edited February 1, 2017 by mrwoberts

[mrwoberts]

Here is the correct version of your script

 

@echo off
REM ## Create a new Staff group ##
net localgroup /add Staff

REM ## Create two new users ##
net user TestUser1 password  /add 
net user TestMeNow1 password2 /add

REM ## Add new users to the Staff group ##
net localgroup Staff TestUser1 /add
net localgroup Staff TestMeNow1 /add

pause

Edited February 1, 2017 by mrwoberts

[angrycomputingteacher]

I've this script and it worked. Thanks for you help