Learning Adsi-part i:adding Users to W2K

Learning Adsi-part i:adding Users to W2K
by Remie Bolte
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Introduction
As the desire and need for the Internet grew, Microsoft created new products and modified their old ones. Windows OS required features that gave developers and administrators the option to perform tasks remotely. Microsoft responded in I with Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI). ADSI provides a single set of directory interfaces to accessing and managing network resources. instance, an administrator could change user permissions or add a user to a network, independent of network environ ment, using a WEB interface or a VB program.

Caveat
Please keep in mind this are going to modify the basics of the Windows NT security model. You should is very alert when dealing with ADSI. Keep in mind this a simple mistype could mean reformatting and reinstalling system. Don ' t does it on a operational machine! Please know this I have tried to make the following code as accurate as possible. Yet I can ' t guarantee their outcome. So please don ' t just copy and paste. I know it is very attractive but it could cause your to spend the next couple of hours looking at a very appealing Windows Installation screen.

Windows Security Account Manager
The security account Manager (SAM) are the portion of Windows which registers and holds all user information and knows all The default configuration settings. Our [a] with SAM entails the process of creating a user. This is applies to Windows NT 4.0.
Note:in the following code to work, administrator rights are required.

Adding A User to the SAM
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1. AddUser "NewUser", "MyDomain"
2.
3. Sub AddUser (Struser,strdomain)
4. Dim Computer
5. Dim User