NetLocalGroupAddMembers

NetLocalGroupAddMembers

The NetLocalGroupAddMembers function adds membership of one or more existing user accounts or global groups to an existing local group. The function does not change the membership status of users or global groups that are currently members of the local group.

Security Requirements

Only members of the Administrators or Account Operators local group can successfully execute NetLocalGroupAddMembers on a remote server.

NET_API_STATUS NetLocalGroupAddMembers(

LPWSTR servername,
LPWSTR LocalGroupName,
DWORD level,
LPBYTE buf,
DWORD membercount
);

Parameters

servername

Pointer to a null-terminated Unicode string containing the name of the remote server on which the function is to execute. A NULL pointer or string specifies the local computer.

LocalGroupName

Pointer to a null-terminated Unicode string containing the name of the local group to which the specified users or global groups will be added.

level

Specifies one of the following values to set the level of information provided.

Value	Meaning
0	The buf parameter points to an array of LOCALGROUP_MEMBERS_INFO_0 structures.
3	The buf parameter points to an array of LOCALGROUP_MEMBERS_INFO_3 structures.

buf

Pointer to a buffer containing the data for the new members.

membercount

Specifies the number of entries in the buffer pointed to by the buf parameter.

Return Values

If the function succeeds, the return value is NERR_Success.

If the function fails, the return value is one of the following error codes.

Value	Meaning
NERR_GroupNotFound	The local group specified by the groupname parameter does not exist.
ERROR_NO_SUCH_MEMBER	One or more of the new members do not exist. Therefore, no new members were added.
ERROR_MEMBER_IN_ALIAS	One or more of the members specified were already members of the local group. Therefore, no new members were added.
ERROR_INVALID_MEMBER	One or more of the members cannot be added because their account type is invalid. Therefore, no new members were added.