ADTest.exe Binding Issues

[Fredsox]

I'm experiencing some authentication issues with ADtest, and if anyone has a
suggestion I'd appreciate it. I've configured the Group Polices and the
registry settings per the white paper. I've also confiugred the user account
with Enterprise Admin membership. When I run the tool with the suggested
syntax to create the test domin structure "adtest -r newroot -root 0 -t 20
-sf -o newroot.log" it correctly identifies the domain and the domain
controller but will subsequently fail to bind. I am using the default ATS
file with no modifications. I'm certain that I've missed a configuration of
some sort, has anyone seen this before?

[Fredsox]

For anyone who might use this tools for load simulation, I found a couple of
"good-to-know" things.

1. The issue I faced was an authentication issue. I found that if I included
the -user and -password switches the commands ran fine. So instead of
running:

"adtest -r newroot -root 0 -t 20 -sf -o newroot.log"

run this :
"adtest -user perftest -password "perftest" -r newroot -root 0 -t 20 -sf -o
newroot.log"

The instructions ask you to create a user account "perftest" with a password
of "perftest" and join it to the Ent Admin group. If you do this or use any
account that is a member of the Ent Admin group the script will run.

2. There is a line in the.ats file in the [user] section (open it in
Notepad) that needs to be deleted
ATTR unicodePwd:$PassWord

-FS