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Remotely set Adminsitrative rights or group member
I have several hundreds of Windows Embedded pc's in a closed network environment. Each pc has an Administrator user, and a user called User. The User logs in by default, and has limited rights. For instance, I can't perform any Admin task, e.g. Control Panel - Administrative tools - Local Security Policy returns 'Group Policy Error' You do not have permission to perform this operation.
Since I need Administrative rights to execute a batchfile to enable Automatic DST Adjustment and sync instantly using NET TIME \\ntpserver /set /y, i want to change the user type of all these PC's to Administrator, or add the User user to the Administrator group without the need to log in as Administrator.
Is there a way to do this remotely by sending some sort of batchfile to these computers and execute it so that it changes my user type or adds me to the Administrator group? i do have the Administrator password and all, it is just that the PC's have been configured incorrectly at installation, and due to the large number of PC's, i need an easy going procedure, that I can invoke remotely.
I have several ways to access the PC's by UltraVNC and a piece of software we developed ourselves, I just need to know the batchfile with regedit execution or any other command to change the user type ro group assigment. Our software will execute it as soon as it is locally present at the computer.
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If you know all the names of the PC, you can try the following batch file with PSEXEC from Sysinternals:
@echo off
::Requires PsExec from SysInternals.com
::Pass Admin password as first parameter
:: Set Admin Account
Set AdmAcct=Administrator
for /f %%a in (PClist.txt) do call:Next %1 %%a
goto:eof
:Next
net use \\%2\c$ "/user:%2\%AdmAcct%" %1
net localgroup "Administrators" "User" /Add
goto:eof
Place all the names of the PCs in a file called pclist.txt and place this in the same folder as the batch file.
Note this will fail on PCs that are turned off.
you use psexec to call the whole batch file
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but if you're going to use it at all, why not use it to apply the patch, rather than change the pc account levels?
If you run it with your credentials specified, it should be able to do what you want. It's like a remote RunAs command.
I executed the following line:
psexec remaddusr.bat password
My screen flickers and the batch file exits with error code 255
The batch file is:
@echo off
::Requires PsExec from SysInternals.com
::Pass Admin password as first parameter
:: Set Admin Account
Set AdmAcct=Administrator
for /f %%a in pclist.txt do call:Next %1 %%a
goto:eof
:Next
net use \\%2\c$ "/user:%2\%AdmAcct%" %1
net localgroup "Administrators" "User" /Add
goto:eof
pclist.txt contains 1 pc for testing
Oops, you're right.
Place the line net localgroup "Administrators" "User" /Add into a file called addusr.cmd
Then replace the above line with psexec \\%2 -d -i -c addusr.cmd
I modified an existing batch file I had for pushing out patches remotely and forgot to correctly edit the last line
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by: aleinssPosted on 2009-04-20 at 07:51:15ID: 24185167
Start>Run>Type in "MMC>Add Computer Management Snap-in>
Select Another Computer>Enter in the computer name of the computer you want to manager
Say OK, then drill down to System Tools>Local Users and Groups>Groups>Administrators
Add the User account there
To remotely access the C drive on the desktops (to place files), you can use "targetpc\c$"