Account isn't showing up when using the net user command

Question

So I'm using the account I want to see info about with command prompt, and it has elevated privileges as well, but when I type in the account name, nothing shows up. So basically it's like this...

C:\WINDOWS\John>net user John

It says that this user name cannot be found. Any help is much appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

Here's the output I get...

Answer 2

I believe because the domain is involved the syntax would be different.

net user John /domain

Does that work?

Answer 3

No, when I do that it says the syntax is incorrect.

Answer 4

Hi, I'm David an independent advisor and user just like you. I'll do my best to help you with this.

If you type just "net user" you'll get a list of all the LOCAL account names that your computer knows about - however this won't include domain accounts.

The "net user username /domain" works on my Windows 10 Pro computer and is the correct syntax as given by Sumit. Did you definitely include the space between the username and the "/domain" part?

When this command works it will query a domain controller and report various variables relating to the account.

Regards,

David

Answer 5

Ok I finally got it once you showed me 😂. What I had done before is replaced /domain with the actual name of the domain. Thank you!