Kixtart is definitely a good solution if you are looking for a single scripting language to support across multiple MS operating systems. We have put in a number of organisations a ingle login script structure using kixtart to look after all the needs of an organisation. Have also used Kixtart in automated builds to provide the menu system on Build and Boot disks as it is very lite for the power return. These days though you would have to be hard pressed to go past VBS/Jscript as it provides all that you need in a script plus some! Perl is very good and powerful, it also has the added advantage of supporting WIN32 and a large Free com library available (The vbs equivalents tend to have a cost involved). Although Kixtart is a good choice, if you need to learn a scripting language better off sticking the ones that are native to the Operating System (that also leaves Perl out as it is an add on - although a good one - Refer ActiveState Perl). Added advantage with VBS is it is a small jump to VB development if you need to do something a bit more tricky like getting to an API or detailed user menus.
Cheers David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: 16 April 2002 18:19 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Logon Scripting 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 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.349 / Virus Database: 195 - Release Date: 15/04/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.349 / Virus Database: 195 - Release Date: 15/04/2002 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
