Copy Local Users From Windows 2003 to another Windows 2003 Server

Hi CityOfOdessa,

there are migration tools avaliable for domain environments but none that i know of for a local machine

Cheers!

I've seen tons of those - but there has to be something that would export or allow transfer of local accounts to another Windows 2003 machine that is not AD...  Experts?  Throw me a bone!   :P

I'm not too sure if it'll work, but have you tried possibly exporting the HKEY_USERS branch of the registry and merging that into the registry on the second server?  Afrai I can't really test from here so not sure if its really even possible, or whether there'll be SID issues or anything like that.  Just an idea...

ok - I have gotten this far.

I've extracted the user names / full names and descriptions - imported them into a SQL Database.  I found a script that will add users the local system.
And I thought I knew allot about ASP - if anyone can help get this code working - I'll up this to 300 points.

This is the ASP code I have - and it give me:  
Active Directory error '80070005'

General access denied error

/public/addusers.asp, line 23

But note - I am not using Active Directory and this code example is from Microsoft TechNet - "Create a Local User Account" and supports Windows Server 20003 / Windows XP / Windows 2000 / Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 98.

If you know how to insert the Full name and Description - that would be a bonus!
As you can see - I loop through the usernames, etc - and attempt to add them using the Script code provided by Microsoft.  I'm sure its a permission issue but that is not important as this is temporary and nobody has access to put code on this internal server.

Code:

'I know, I know - old school classic ASP  :P

sqlCmd2 = "SELECT * FROM users99"
      set cn2 = Session("cnMSSQL")
      set RS2 = cn2.execute(sqlCmd2)

WHILE NOT RS2.EOF
      username = RS2("Username")
      fullname = RS2("Fullname")
      Desc = RS2("Desc")

strComputer = "ISWEBSERVER"
Set ColAccounts = GetObject("WinNT://" & StrComputer & "")
Set ObjUser = ColAccounts.Create("user",  username )
objUser.SetPassword "password"
objUser.SetInfo

RS2.MoveNext
WEND

wow - no takers?   Where are the experts?

even if your coding works, you still are importing nothing but names, you then have no group assosciations and memberships - have nver seen a way nor know of anyone who has been able to import local accounts into AD - sometimes the answer is it cannot be done

good luck though i hope you get it figured out

that is all you need - is a group of names ...  note the wscript - it puts the username in the 'user' group on the local machine.
Note the question states - local accounts only - this has nothing at all to do with active directory.  (Not apart of a domain)

ah lol my bad - i am in so many diff Q's that i get confused sometimes   i apologise about that

i see where you are going and it looks like it may work - i hope it does coz once you nail it this could be a usefull tool or a lot people, wish i could help with your script but i cant even spell script on most days... :)

I've figured it out.

Sub AddUser(strUser,strDomain,strFullname,strPassword,strDesc)
    Dim Computer
    Dim User
    Set Computer = Getobject("WinNT://" & strDomain)
    Set User = computer.create("User",strUser)
    User.fullname = strFullname
    User.Description = strDesc
   call User.SetPassword(strPassword)
   User.setinfo

   Set User = nothing
   Set computer = nothing
 End sub


Then just loop through your records in the database with the username / fullname / description
and add a password.

In the WHILE NOT RS loop
just add:

adduser username, "COMPUTERNAME", Fullname, "password", Desc

movenext - then WEND it and its done.

Now how do I close this and reclaim the points?   :)

Any recommendations for what?

I created a solution to my own question.

I agree to the PAQ'ing - may be useful in future