Harondel J. Sibble
2000-Feb-02 14:59 UTC
samba and nt server logon scripts for win9x - running a program
Howdy folks, been playing with win9x domain logon scripts to ease my admin tasks with a few clients and having trouble with one item. Basically what I want to have happen is each monday at first logon, the script would run the latest antivirus definition updater, the user would click yes to run it once the dialogue popped up and be done in 15-30secs or so. Here is the problem, if I first map the [netlogon] service to v: and in that same directory have the latest def updates, ie 0124i32.exe and in the script say v:\0124i32.exe all is fine. However if I use a wildcard like v:\????i32.exe or v:\*i32.exe it doesn't work. Any ideas on how to get around this? Basically I have a cron job setup to download the latest update file each saturday and dump it in the netlogon share (for testing purposes now, I'll eventually setup a dedicated share for updates at logon). Also does anyone know any way to use the update file without user intervention? I checked it by running "0124i32.exe /?" from the command line and there aren't any switches it mentions for running in non-interactive mode. Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. help@pdscc.com (pgp enabled) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)