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Login Script for win2k Server

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by lmarkovski

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Scenario:
1.Win2k server Configured as WorkGroup Server
2.Win95,Win 98 Clients pc need to log into server and map network Drives g: h:
3.Where do I put the script?

What I have tried.
1.because not a domain controller and has no sysvol. i cantput script in there.
2.I created a variable in environment and pointed it to login.bat file. In users i created the profile to point to the batch file so it can excecute and run login script.(I couldnt get this to work when Clients logged in.
3.Mywork around was to create login bat with net use g: \\servername\common\dir
and place it in all pc's startup group which works.

4.I know this is a dirty way of doing it.But i have no options as to promote server to DC I need to run though AD wizard and I cant install AD at this point of time because of the mixed environment and different countries involved in my organisation have used same server names and ip addresses ?

1.Is there any cleaner way of doing it?
2.Can I promote a win2k server without installing AD?

Thankyou in advance (Sorry if i babbled)

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by ayoshi

You cannot configure a logon script in a workgroup, only a domain & you can't promote a W2K server to DC without AD, so....

I would recommend the following:

1. Plan the final hierarchy of AD (not based on what you have, but what you WANT to have at the end)
2. Go ahead and create the Active Directory. The first Domain created should be the "company.local" domain.
3. Create a Child Domain such as "mydomain.company.local", and this is where your current workgroup should be put.

As long as you don't try to put the same computer names into the same domain, you should have no problems, AND you can start using Active Directory now.

As far as the duplicate IP addresses, it seems to me that this affects more than AD. I would notmake the AD implementation dependent on the IP Address cleanup, but would utilize some of the features (DHCP/DDNS) of W2K to assist in remedying the problem.

Hope this helps.

AYoshi

by joseph moore

No, without running DCPROMO to set up the Win2K server to be a Domain Controller, then you can't run a logon script FROM the server.
Putting LOGON.BAT in the Startup folder of the Win9x clients is what you have to do.
Yes, it is a dirty way of doing this, but it works.

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