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NT logon script not executing
Name: Aart Date: November 13, 2002 at 05:51:37 Pacific OS: NT 4.0srvr 98client CPU/Ram: 1x 1Gh svr, 300Mws
Comment:
I'm trying to make personalized logon scripts, one per user. Starting out with low risk user, me. Regardless of what I do, the WS wont run the script from the server during logon. If i run the script manually, it works fine. The script is on all the servers so I can't be logging in to the wrong machine. Sometimes the logonscript does pop up during logon, but it's not actually donig anything, it just blinks a black square which a REALLY FAST viewer might reckognise as a DOS box. ergardless of lines in the script (i.e. "pause") i still dont get my script on my client.
Does anyone have ANY hints? I'm getting desperate here :(
Name: Steve Dunn Date: November 13, 2002 at 07:48:55 Pacific
Reply:
Assuming script in right place on server & user setup to pick it up correctly - did you run it manually on the machine it will actually run on, under same user? Can you give us an idea of what the script does?
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Response Number 2
Name: Cleo Date: November 13, 2002 at 08:33:33 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure the sharename or server name where the script is located is not longer than 8 characters. Login scripts are DOS scripts and it won't recognize a servername or sharename that is longer than 8 characters. Several of my students made this same mistake and once they renamed their shares, their scripts worked.
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