Add a user to an NIS domain

Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2

To add a user to an NIS domain

  1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.

  2. In the console tree, click the Users folder.

  3. In the details pane, right-click the user you want to add to the NIS domain, and then click Properties.

  4. Click the UNIX Attributes tab.

  5. In the NIS Domain list, click the domain to which you want to add the user.

  6. In the Primary group name/GID list, click the name of the user's primary group, and then click OK

  7. In the details pane, right-click the group you selected as the user's primary group, and then click Properties.

  8. Click the UNIX Attributes tab, and then click Add.

  9. In the Available NIS Users list, click the name of the user you just added to the domain, click Add, and then click OK.

Note

There is no command-line method for this procedure. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers. The logon name of the user must comply with UNIX user-naming conventions. It must contain only lowercase alphabetic and numeric characters, no more than eight characters, and at least one alphabetic character. It must not include either a colon (:) or a newline character. A user identifier (UID), default shell, and home directory are automatically assigned to the user. If your NIS domain has special requirements for these values, you can change them when you add the user to the domain or at any later time.

See Also

Concepts

Managing NIS users
Change a user's ID (UID)
Change a user's default shell
Change a user's home directory
Edit passwd, group, and host map entries using Active Directory Users and Computers
Propagate changed maps now
Managing standard and nonstandard NIS maps