I've seen references that WIn2003 usernames can be up to 30 chars in
length when backwards compatibilty is not important. When I try to
create a new user on my machine with a name of 25 chars using either
NET USER or the UI, it is rejected.

What do I need to do in order to make Windows let me use the full 30 chars?

I know this is possible becuase I had a machine that was set up to
allow it and it worked fine.

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Request for Question Clarification by muhammad-ga on 25 Aug 2004 04:27 PDT

Hello!

Most documents mention the limitation of 20 characters for username.

I came across a setting for Connection Manager on Microsoft Technet
that has a value which lets you change the value of the key
MaxUserName

"MaxUserName Specifies the maximum length of the user name that the user can type. 
Default = 256 bytes.
 .cms [Connection Manager] "

You ay also have a look at "Advanced Customization Options for
Connection Manager" at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/ierk/Ch14_d.asp

Please read more about this at
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_cm_tools.asp
and let me know if this can help you. I do not access to Windows 2003
server, I would have tried it myself otherwise.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
muhammad-ga,
Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Question by bigjosh-ga on 25 Aug 2004 08:09 PDT

Unfortunately, this setting only lets you change the length of the
username sent when logging into other servers with IE. I'm looking for
a way to change the length of the actual username on the server.