Saturday, October 24, 2009

Create a new Multiple user accounts in Windows XP

Adding a new Window Xp User Accounts
The administrator or a user with administrator rights can create additional user accounts.
1.Click the Start button and click Control Panel.
2.In the Control Panel window, click User Accounts.
3.Under Pick a task, click Create a new account.
4.Under Name the new account, type the name of the new user and click Next.
5.Under Pick an account type, click one of the following options:
Computer administrator — You can change all computer settings.
Limited — You can change only your own personal settings, such as your password. You cannot install programs or use the Internet.
6. Click Create Account.
Adding a new Window Xp User Accounts using Dos Prompt.

To create a new account you have to type as follows :
net user USERNAME PASSWORD /ADD
Ex: net user sampleuser welcome /add

To delete the account type as follows :
net user USERNAME /del
Ex: net user sampleuser welcome /del

To get Admin rights type as follows :
net localgroup administrators username /add

The complete command is
[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/DOMAIN]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]

To Create Folder for user :
mkdir username

To Create Folder for Multiple users :
mkdir username1 username2 username3 ...............usernameN

Save the Multiple user file as .bat and in Dos prompt
Ex :Sampleuserfile.bat
following commands are in Sampleuserfile.bat

net user sampleuser1 welcome /add
net user sampleuser2 welcome /add
net user sampleuser3 welcome /add
........................................
net user sampleuserN welcome /add

If we run Sampleuser.bat in Command Prompt or Double Click the Sampleuser.Bat file then following user accounts are created.
Sampleuser1
Sampleuser2
Sampleuser3
....................
SampleuserN
Ex : Sampleuserfolder.bat
username1
username2
..................
usernameN

When you share a folder from your Xdrive, you can control how others access the contents of that folder by setting folder permissions. When you allow others to upload new files to a folder, you can set a quota to limit the amount of space available to the users you are sharing with.

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