[KLUG Members] Re: WinY2K and logon scripts.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I have a Samba 2.2.1a-ldap.4 PDC on RedHat 7.1.  It happily deals out
>logon scripts (those batch files that run when you log on) to NT 4.0sp6 and
>Win9x machines.  But on WinY2k workstations the logon scripts simply don't
>run. Documentation makes it appear that NT/WinY2k handle logon scripts the
>same,  so any pointers from those who know more about Redmond product than me? 
>Or is it a Samba thing?
>The WinY2k machines have happily joined the domain,  automatically
>created  machine accounts for themselves in the LDAP directory, etc...   It
>even works to upload print drivers to the Samba box...  I'm simply amazed, 
>those Samba guys rock.  I'll even admit that WinY2k is a big leap forward from
>NT 4.0.

FYI,  this problem was my bad.  A few minutes of noodling about with grep and
strings confirmed that the tidbits I got from the Samba team looked on the
money.  So I poked "scriptPath: cis.bat" and "profilePath:
\\BARBEL\PROFILES\adam" into my LDAP object,  logged onto a workstation, and
BALLA BING BALLA BOOM!  Everything was working,  and I'm back on the happy
trail.

So thats: PDC Authentication, Logon Scripts, Policies, Profiles, Printer
installation, Printer driver upload and automatic machine account creation all
purring away.  Simply amazing.



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