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Script won't execute for User in W2K

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by swetbak

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I have a simple login script to map a network drive on the server, and it will only map the drive when a Domain Admin. logs in. The script will not execute when an ordinary Domain User logs in.
I'm using Active Directory, and it doesn't matter if the scrip is placed in the "login script" area on the Profile tab, or if the script is in the default Domain Policy-User Config.-Scripts-logon.
It works fine if I give the user Admin. Priv's.
I've checked everything I can think of but I'm runningout of wits.
Any help would be great.
Thanks

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by rob baugh

If I'm understanding you, you have set group policy and are trying to associate a script with the policy then a user. Make sure the group policy is being applied to the user. Make sure the user has read and apply permissions on the group policy set to "allow".

by jon pratt

Here's your solution and it's really fairly simple. Go into Active Directory Users and Computers and go to the properties of the Domain Controllers OU. Then click on the Group Policy Tab and edit the Default Domain Controllers Policy. Once you have the policy open go to this location: Computer Configuration, Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights, and then add Authenticated Users to the "Access this computer from the network" Group Policy option. This will allow all authenticated users with non-admin privilages to connect to the netlogon share and run the designated script. Once you're convinced that this works I would take the authenticated users out of the GP setting and setup the appropriate permissions based on your networks design. I would suggest associating logon scripts through GP, however, it sounds like you did an in place upgrade from 4.0 and have quite a bit of restructuring to do before you start controlling your environment through GP. To avoid anomalousproblems such as the one you're currently experiencing I would schedule the restructuring of your accounts into the appropriate OU construct as soon as you can. Good Luck.

by swetbak

Jon, that was too easy. Sounded like it was going to be the solution, but it didn't work.
This is not an NT4 upgrade. Completely new install. I'm just adding a few users at a time to work out the bugs before replacing our Netware 3.12 Server. I can't understand why this would not be working. As far as I know I have not changed any fundamental settings. I don't think I know enough about W2K to make many changes.
I do have the "My Documents" being Redirected to the Server, which I think is cool. I am also able to map the Home Folder from the Profiles tab. Just can't get the script to run.
If you have any other suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
Also, any ideas how to get a logon script to run from a W95/98 client. Even my Admin account doesn't run the script on them.
Thanks

by shanghai sam

Thanks for the suggestion. Most of my searches on the subject returned many users who use kixtart, and I still may look at it, but I got my stated issues resolved. If anyone has similar problems, feel free to send me an email and I will share what helped for me.

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