LDIFDE utility - needs help please

[emma]

To : Whom can help me

This is the content of my user.ldf file

dn:CN=James Smith,OU=System,DC=school,DC=local,DC=my
changetype:add
cn:James Smith
objectclass:user
samAccountName:James
givenNames:James
sn:Smith

I use it with the LDIFDE windows 2000 server utility. I
would like to add a user in the school domain but i got an
error after i execute this command

"ldifde -i -f user.ldf com-avlsvr-01"

the error is
"Connecting to "com-avlsvr-01"
Logging in as current user using SSPI
Importing directory from file "user.ldf"
Error occured during initialization
File operation failure
0 entries modified successfully.
An error has occurred in the program"

Hope that you guyz can advice me to check where is it the
possibility of this error happens? Appreciate very much.
Thank you.

 

[Simon Geary]

If you follow the instructions in this KB you should be fine.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=237677

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

First. Delete any spaces at the end of each line in the user.ldf file
(notepad likes to add them and ldifde dont like them)

Second. from your user.ldf file. System is not an OU, its an CN and
you cannot add user to the System Container.

You might also want to check this article
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/AD/windows2000/howto/bulkstep.asp

Johan Arwidmark