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PLEASE HELP: Shortcut on Desktop

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by monica m

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I would like to know if someones knows how to create a Shortcut on an NT 4.0 workstation and Win 95 desktop upon loging based on domain group membership. I use Kix login scripts and am not sure what type of entry I would need to enter to create a shorcut on a desktop to a folder of a server on my domain. Any suggestions?

Thanks in Advance,
M.M

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by kareem

Have you tried using the NT resource kit? They may have software that can do that.

by syscokid

Do you use group profiles? We use a login script that accepts a variable that specifies which group a user belongs to. Then among other things, the script does this:

xcopy "\\%1\Profiles$\Common\Desktop\*.*" "%Userprofile%\Desktop"

where %1 is servername.

To force all common users to get the same icons, we create them in "\\%1\Profiles$\Common\Desktop\, and they are copied to the user's desktop at login.

I don't know much about it but you should be able to do something similar with Kix.

by ustutz

One possibility: Set up log-on scripts for each group (doable if you have few groups). Then assign the appropriate group logon script when you create / update the user.

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