Login Scripts for Win 95/98

Are you peer to peer sharing resouces ie printers or folders between the 95/98 computers or just want to get access to the NT server? If you just want to get access to the NT server after you have the correct workgroups set or domain just right click on the network neighborhood and the map the network drive that each person has access to and you can set it to log on on boot up. 95/98 just remembers it. I am sure there is away to do it in scripting like we use to do with Novell Netware because win 95/98 can do this but it is easy to do setting it up going from computer to computer. Also from your Win95/98 machines you verify you setup you security (some what) correctly. Check and see when you map your drives that they were not given excess rights and privilages.

Hope that helps
mschlueter@prolynx.com

I'm not exactly sure why it wouldn't work for 95/95 stations? User profiles only work with NT based system, that is why Microsoft integrated login scripts, for 95/98 systems, put your login scripts in the \WINNT\SYSTEM32\REPL\EXPORT Directory, and setup replication, this will put the logon script into the WINNT\..\REPL\IMPORT Directory that is shared by the system. In User Manager for Domains, select the user, click on profiles, and enter the name of the logon script in the login script box.
If this doesn't work for you, and you just can't get it going, another work araound would be to copy your logon script to a floppy and copy it to each workstations root directory, then put a shortcut to it in the startup group of the 95/98 stations. Basically all your doing here is using a batch file to run all your NET USE statements to be executed once the user has logged onto the network.

You could look at using KiXtart a freeware.

You can download from : http://netnet.net/~swilson/kix/download.htm

Below is a quote from Oliver Knorr
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It is written by Ruud Van Velsen, a Microsoft employee as a spare time activity, and an old version is also included in the Windows NT resource kit. It is not officially supported by Microsoft, but it is very reliable and the author has done an excellent job in providing regular updates with bug fixes and improvements for several years now.
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FROM THE Kix32 MANUAL.
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KiXtart 95 is a logon script processor and/or enhanced batch language for Windows NT and Windows 95 workstations in a Windows Networking environment.

With it, you can conditionally display information, set environment variables, start programs, connect to network drives, read or edit the registry, and/or change the current drive and directory using a free format 'script language'.

There are varying ways to do this. If you simply want a users desktop to follow them around then you need to enable profiles on the W9x boxes and provide a home directory under NT.

Do this by defining a home directory for the user in the profiletab of User Manager connect : to <\\server\username>. Create a batch file in \\server\netlogon with the line: NET USE : /HOME.
Add the name of this file to the logon script line of the profile tab.

KIX32 offers a lot more flexibility. By defining a set of groups in User Manager (e.g. Organisational group and Printer XYZ uers) and using conditional functions in KIX32 you duplicate the functions of Netware logons. If you call your base KIX script KIXSTART.SCR you can simply specify KIX32 as your logon script in User Manager. You need to have a copy of KIX32.EXE and its support dlls in the NETLOGON share.

Your NT server should be a Domain Controller. Make sure the Net Logon service is started and set to automatic. On the Domain Controller put your login scripts (*.bat) in C:\WINNT\system32\Repl\Import\Scripts. Then the clients should have client for Microsoft networks installed and set to logon to the domain. In user manager for domains on the DC select a user and click on the profile button, in the ?login script name? field put the name of you login script (*.bat file) that you want the user touse.

Sample Drive Mapping:

net time \\server1 /set /y
net use s: \\server2\allbank
net use g: \\ server2\operat
net use i: \\ server2\install$
net use r: \\server1\trackit_4.0
net use u: \\server3\install$
net use v: \\server3\install$
call c:\login.bat

Sample Printer Mapping:

net use lpt2: /delete
net use lpt2: \\server2\LoanOps

Or you could simply create the login.bat files and place them on the drive of the win95 win98 machines and make a shortcut on the user?s desktop that points to the login.bat they can execute it when they want to access the resources.