Re: WAY OT: Logon Scripts

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxx>]

Hiya!

Take a look here ( http://www.kixtart.org/ ) could be
classed as a bit
'wrong direction' with XP's ability to run vba login scripts but its
backwards compatable and Ive run it for years! talk about 'batch files
on steroids!'  registry tweaking, printer additions / deletions on
running - anyways should sort most things

Enjoy!
Wayne.
www.planetWayne.com



Rob Mouser wrote:

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>Hi This is a post on behalf of one of the guys here at work and I know
we've
>got some clever folk on this list.
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>He's trying to achieve the following:
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>The plan is to use group policy to lock down the users machine so they
>cannot access anything except a few select icons on the desktop.
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>Identical software will be installed in identical locations on each
machine
>e.g.
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>C:\Program Files\TPSIMS\TPSIMS.exe
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>A folder full of shortcuts will be then created on the server.  Upon
>logining into the network the script will delete all existing icons
from the
>desktop and copy over the shortcuts from the server.
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>As well as copying over the shortcuts the login script needs to :
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>a.       Map drives (already done).
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>b.       Create folders and copy over certain filers (already done).
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>c.       Call an executable that alters some registry setting for the
>printer (Big group Minolta thing that has to be mapped from each
machine
>rather than via a shared server install.).  This executable starts to
run
>but as the user is not an administrator on the local machine it fails.
>Therefore we need to be able to run the script as an administrator
without
>having to setup each user as a local administrator.
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>d.       It would also be useful if the script could create a local
account
>for the user giving them standard user privileges.
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>I hope that makes sense and can it be done?
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>Many thanks
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>Rob
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