Topic: New to Login Scripts

[Matt]

I really need some help I have never written a login script before and, am not really sure where to start.  I have altered the default script in sme and got home drives to map but I also want is to map an ibay that I setup for a group of users and I need some help please.  Can anyone either give me a sample script and or point me in the direction of a beginners website on writing login scripts.  

I have already looked at various previous posts here, but have little knowledge of scripts so just got more confused, any simple advice would be great.  Also I am not really sure what else a logon script is capable of doing so any info on that would be really great.

Thanks Matt

[Greg Zartman]

Matt,

Here is mine.  Fairly straigth forward.

net use h: /home /persistent:no
net use p: \server\projects /persistent:no
net use s: \server\company /persistent:no
net use m: \server\management /persistent:no
net use x: \server\executive /persistent:no
net use r: \server\repository /persistent:no
net use u: \server\repository\html\uploads /persistent:no
net time \server /set /yes
net use z: /delete /y

Regards,

Greg

[Michiel Blotwijk]

netlogon.bat will run on the client, so any win(dos) command will work. Open a dos-box on your Windows client and type 'help' or 'cmd /?' for info on the commands you can use.

The following system variables can also be quite useful in your script:

     %username%  
     %computername%
     %os%
     %userdomain%
     %time%
     %date%  
     %logonserver%  
     %path%

For example:

if %os%=Windows_NT \myserver\netlogon\nt_logon.bat

will check if the client is an nt/2k/xp box and launch the nt_logon.bat file

Michiel

[Michiel Blotwijk]

> if %os%=Windows_NT \myserver\netlogon\nt_logon.bat

Sorry, should be:

if %os%==Windows_NT \myserver\netlogon\nt_logon.bat

[Aaron Lighthill]

Sorry to barge in I am trying use your script but I only get my l drive mapped which is the users home directory. I only want one more drive mapped to an ibay which I have set to everyone group for access to read and write. I can map it through windows but the script does not map it.
Thanks for your help.

Aaron

[Michiel]

1/ Which version of Windows are you running? Win9x/ME won't let you map to subdirectories of an ibay.

2/ Are you sure netlogon.bat is running? If not, you could add a test line to netlogon.bat, for example "time /T > c:\test.txt". This will create the file c:\test.txt if netlogon runs.

Normally, the following command should map my-ibay to K:

net use K: \myserver\my-ibay

Note the double backslash before the hostname. You should also be able to ping to the hostname.

Michiel