Ok, I have been working on a solution to this for two days, but to no avail…
I need to find a way to install applications through a login script using the tools my company has currently provided me with. The tools consist of the use of WSHand the W2k and NT4 resource kits. The problem I am running into is not a new one… It happens when a user logs in to the network, the login script runs and denies them permission to install the desired application(in this case a hotfix and a patch). This would of course require admin-like priviledges to their system, which neither the user nor the script have at the time of logon. SMS would probably solve all my problems right now, but unfortunately it will be months before my company willactually impliment it on our network. By the way, our network environment currently consists of 6 NT 4.0 servers, about 90 NT 4.0 workstations and about 35 Win 2000 professional machines.
I have looked into several solutions, including the use of the su (switch user in nt resource kit), runas (Win2k util), the at command and regini(to give the login script/user rights to the particular registry key).
My question is: Has anyone here been through this before and if so, what did you do tosolve the problem, or how did you get around the issue?
