Re: samba and nt server logon scripts for win9x - running a program

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

How about having the logon scripts call another script that you
can edit whenever you change the update file's name?
At least it gets you down to one place.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com


"Harondel J. Sibble" wrote:
> 
> Howdy folks, been playing with win9x domain logon scripts to ease my admin
> tasks with a few clients and having trouble with one item.  Basically what I
> want to have happen is each monday at first logon, the script would run the
> latest antivirus definition updater, the user would click yes to run it once
> the dialogue popped up and be done in 15-30secs or so.
> 
> Here is the problem, if I first map the [netlogon] service to v: and in that
> same directory have the latest def updates, ie 0124i32.exe and in the script
> say v:\0124i32.exe all is fine. However if I use a wildcard like
> v:\????i32.exe or v:\*i32.exe it doesn't work. Any ideas on how to get around
> this?  Basically I have a cron job setup to download the latest update file
> each saturday and dump it in the netlogon share (for testing purposes now,
> I'll eventually setup a dedicated share for updates at logon).
> 
> Also does anyone know any way to use the update file without user
> intervention? I checked it by running "0124i32.exe /?" from the command line
> and there aren't any switches it mentions for running in non-interactive
> mode.
> 
> Harondel J. Sibble
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