You can never have enough reduncancy -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Durbin, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:46 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Hidedrives Talk about being prepared! -----Original Message----- From: Magnus [mailto:Magnus@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:30 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Hidedrives Here here.... I have done 2500 user accounts with VBS/WSH took 10 minutes to include group membership, TShome dir and TS profile path as well as creating and sharing the Home dir on a file server with CMD or shell script it took a little over an hour. the learning paid off as well, I store that info in a SQL database (that I fill with a dump from AD every 2 days) so Just in case something hapens to our DC's, mirrored drives, back up tape and ghost image I have another backup for account info Magnus Quoting "Durbin, Jeff" <jdurbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I don't want to start the whole 'VBScript vs. CMD file vs. Kix' debate > again, but I will just say that VBScript is way faster than using > IFMEMBER and REG. I rewrote a customer's 1700 line CMD login script in > VBScript and it went from minutes to seconds. I do agree that it's > more complicated to write VBScript, but the payoff for a little > learning is tremendous. > > Jeff Durbin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:51 AM > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: Hidedrives > > > You don't even need vbscript - you could do it with cmd files and > resource kit utilities (IFMEMBER.EXE and REG.EXE). > > And whilst I do quite a bit of vbscript / WSH / ADSI stuff, this would > be more complex via vbscript than it needs to be. You would have to > use WSH (either that, or WMI) to access the registry, and rather > convoluted stuff in ADSI to establish group membership. Whereas using > command files, or say something like Kix it's all very direct - > one-liners for both the group membership check, and the registry > writes. > > Neil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Durbin, Jeff [mailto:jdurbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 03 September 2003 17:45 > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [THIN] Re: Hidedrives > > > > > > No, but as a workaround, you could use a VBScript to set the reg key > > based on group membership during logins. Just be sure to call it > > before Explorer loads. If I remember correctly, if you call it from > > USRLOGON.CMD, that runs before Explorer. If not, call it from > > AppSetup in WinLogon. > > > > Jeff Durbin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Fraser [mailto:chrisfraser@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:16 PM > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [THIN] Hidedrives > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I've implemented system policies (nt4 style, not GPOs) on a newly > > built win2k sp3 server in an NT4 domain. > > > > I have an issue where the policy for hiding drives does not stick. > > If I set the policy, save the file, close poledit and then open it > > up again, the setting has been greyed out. Drives are still visible > > to users on the system. > > > > I have created a separate template (hidedrives.adm) for hiding > > drives so that I do not need to edit the standard ADMs. I have > > insured that there is no other place in the policy that I have > > configured the drive visibility. > > > > Has anyone else seen this issue? > > *********************************************** > This e-mail and its attachments are confidential > and are intended for the above named recipient > only. 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