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Name: Dustin
Date: August 24, 2000 at 12:20:29 Pacific
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Hello,
I am trying to build a new win2k server to replace our nt4 server. where does win2k store login scripts? will my nt4 scripts still work? Any good sites i can learn about login scripts at?

Thanks in Advance,
Dustin



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Name: Winter
Date: August 24, 2000 at 22:06:36 Pacific
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Your NT 4 logon scripts should still work, but you'll have to try them to be sure.

As for where Win 2K stores the logon scripts...

In Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.x and 4.0, domain controllers maintain a NETLOGON share in which administrators typically keep logon scripts and system policy files. After a computer is upgraded to Windows 2000 and promoted to a domain controller, the NETLOGON share and its contents are moved to a new location known as SYSVOL that is part of an automatically replicated folder structure that is replicated amongst domain controllers in the same domain.

During the promotion to domain controller, the administrator specifies the location in which SYSVOL should be created. This becomes the folder structure that is automatically replicated to other domain controllers in the same domain by the File Replication service (FRS). Because the administrator has this option, the location of SYSVOL on each domain controller may vary.

A Scripts folder is automatically created in SYSVOL under a junction named with the domain name. Any files that reside in the folder shared as NETLOGON are moved to the Scripts folder.

By default, on Windows NT 3.x and 4.0 domain controllers, the %SystemRoot%\System32\Repl\Import\Scripts folder is shared as NETLOGON. The Dcpromo.exe tool (the tool used for promotion to domain controller) also modifies the registry data that defines the path to the NETLOGON share. When the Windows 2000-based computer starts as a domain controller, the folder that is shared as NETLOGON is SYSVOL path\SYSVOL\DomainName\Scripts by default.


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