How to create user accounts fast?

It's usually necessary to have more available arguments when creating users than Net User allows. Check out Addusrs from the NT4 resource kit - very easy to write user creation scripts based on minimal input.

ADSI is the MS recomended way to go now. You meantioned not wanting to do alot of scripting, though, so this definitely isn't for you.

Addusrs can be manipulated through regular .bat files for all the functionality that you need. If you dont know how, you can learn in under an hour - dead easy stuff mate.

Use addusers.exe command from the resource kit.

Check this out..

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20381208/adding-list-of-users-from-text-file-or-copying-user-accounts-across-machines.html

What I would use is the User Manager for Domains found in Start./Programs/Administrative Tools/ for Windows NT 4.0 Server.  You can create a template user and set it's properties the way that you want.  Then highlight the template user and select User/Copy or F8.  This will make a copy of all of the settings that you set-up before except for the user information and password.  If all of the properties of the users remain the same then you just need to type in the username and password.

It sounds like there are already some good ideas here, but I'll share what I did to create 1200 user accounts in about 10 minutes with a home directory and everything.  If you have a spreadsheet of users, edit it like was mentioned above and then do a simple mail merge with Word to create a batch file that would create all this at once.  We also were able to create their first-time logon password using this method.  Each student ended up having about 7 lines each in the batch file.