Net group
Adds, displays, or modifies global groups in domains.
Syntax
net group [groupname [/comment:"text"]]
[/domain]
net group [groupname
{/add [/comment:"text"] | /delete} [/domain]]
net group [groupname username[ ...] {/add |
/delete} [/domain]]
Parameters
- groupname
- Specifies the name of the group to add, expand, or delete. Specify a group
name to view a list of users in a group only.
- /comment:"text"
- Adds a comment for a new or existing group. The comment can have as many
as 48 characters. Enclose the text in quotation marks.
- /domain
- Performs the operation on the domain controller in the current domain.
Otherwise, the operation is performed on the local computer.
- /add
- Adds a group, or adds a user name to a group. You must establish an
account for users that you add to a group with this command.
- /delete
- Removes a group, or removes a user name from a group.
- username[ ...]
- Lists one or more user names to add to or remove from a group. Separate
multiple user name entries with a space.
- net help command
- Displays help for the specified net command.
Remarks
- Used without parameters, net group displays the name of a server
and the names of groups on the server.
- You can also type net groups.
- Use net group to group users who use the network in the same or
similar ways. When you assign rights to a group, each member of the group
automatically has those rights. In the output, net group precedes
groups that include both users and groups with an asterisk (*).
The net group output of groups on the server is similar to the
following:
Group Accounts for \\PRODUCTION
----------------------------------------------
*Domain Admins *Domain Users
Examples
To display a list of all of the groups on the local server, type:
net group
To add a group called Exec to the local user accounts database, type:
net group exec /add
To add a group called Exec to the domain database, type:
net group exec /add /domain
To add the existing user accounts stevev, ralphr, and jennyt to the Exec
group on the local computer, type:
net group exec stevev ralphr jennyt /add
To add the existing user accounts stevev, ralphr, and jennyt to the Exec
group in the domain database, type:
net group exec stevev ralphr jennyt /add /domain
To display users in the Exec group, type:
net group exec
To add a comment to the Exec group record, type:
net group exec /comment:"The executive staff"
Formatting legend
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Parameter that can be repeated several times in a command line |
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Optional items |
Between braces ({}); choices separated by pipe (|). Example: {even|odd} |
Set of choices from which the user must choose only one |
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