I second that - my login scripts on NT4 have been perl based since I joined
- the flexibility is simply awesome.
I've been playing with deploying ActivePerl via GPO to my workstations then
writing GPO scripts in PerlScript (perl inside WSH files) - seems to work a
treat :)
Paul
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KixStart is pretty handy. It has several features that make it easy to use
as a login script language. It's simple enough that even non-programmers
should be able to pick it up easily.
In my humble opinion, however, KixStart peters out pretty quickly when
attempting to do much more than map drives. Developing anything other than
trivial scripts gets complicated quickly.
If you aren't afraid of programming, I'd recommend doing your login scripts
in Perl. Perl and the Win32 extensions have a bit of a steep learning
curve,
but it's well worth it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Schlegel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Logon Scripting
Still debating on what kind of scripting to use for Logins.
PDC is a 2000 Server, in Native mode. Ideally I would use the startup
login
script in Group Policy for the whole domain, minimizing all administration.
However I only have about 10% of my machines on Windows 2000 Professional
and my understanding of GPO's is that this won't work on any of the 95/98
clients. Clients are all Win 95/98/2000 and I don't see myself upgrading
all the client machines anytime soon.
It seems to me from what I have been reading that Kixtart is the way to go
because this is the only way I can map folders by associated group
memberships. It also looks like it ads a lot of functionality is very
scalable.
My ultimate goal is to have one logon script, should I explore Kixtart as a
one script solution? Is this a realistic goal with older OS clients? I
have
about 250-300 machines on the network. Right now everyone has a unique
.bat
file, setup by the previous administration and it is really starting to get
to me.
Thanks for any of your comments or suggestions, I am definately open to
exploring any and all options out there.
-Bryan
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