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The user is only a member of the domain users...he claims he hasn't logged into the server directly.

The only way that this user is allowed to have access to the server is through manually mounting a couple of shared drives on the server. He is required to enter a password because his workstation doesn't belong to our DC but he however has a user account in our AD. I don't see why he will be the only person out of 12 people to have a personal profile on the server. There's something fishy going on. I just want to have all the facts before I approach him.

This might sound stupid but does windows create a profile for users who don't login locally or remotely to a workstation or server? I just realized that one of my users has a profile on our file server...by profile I mean, when I go to documents and settings, his username has a directory with desktop, start menu, etc in it. I'm trying to figure out if he logged into the server and how. He must have physically or remotely logged in for a profile to be created right?

Thanks..that fixed my problem.

WMI crashes every time I login with my admin account (not administrator account). I have a feeling it's something in my local settings/temp folder. Also, this only happens to my account. WMI doesn't crash when I login as another admin or with the local Administrator credentials. How safe is it to empty this directory?

I have a Windows XP machine acting as a server for a couple of our Network printers. The machine has 4 network printers installed on it and other workstation are able to install it as a shared printer onto their workstations. I'm trying to use this same logic to add the 4 printers (networked) to my windows server 2003 and then use use a script to auto-mount them for the workstations on my AD network. You might be wondering why I can't just install the 4 printers on the server and them have all the workstations share from it. For one, I have two subnet's for two groups (company1 and company2). Company one is on my AD and company 2 is on a different domain I don't have control over and don't want to join in any way shape of form. What throws me off is that the workstations on my AD are able to manually add these 4 printers by using the IP. However, I can't do the same for the Server. It gives me an error saying that I either typed the wrong printer name or that the server is down. Any Ideas?

I recently joined about 50 workstations to a new domain but 3 workstations in particular can't join the domain. I get access denied, I've tried everything with DNS but still no go. All 3 machines are on the same network and pointing to the right DNS just like all the others. One thing the 3 workstations have in common is that they are both dual booting XP and Linux. Could this possible be the problem and how do I fix it?

Hey, Do you have anything similar to this to this that can delete software remotely?

Hey, the script actually worked...I misspelled the group name and that gave me a headache for 2 days but I finally saw it and all is well now. Thanks a lot. One little thing though...I used the script to mount a network printer but when I right click the printer from the client pc and go to printer preference, it give an error. Something about "not being able to display all the settings". Have you encountered this problem?

A little disappointed...I'm not sure what I did wrong but the script didn't work for me. I uploaded both files to the netlogon share, which opens up by default when I click browse. I then added just the logon.vbs and hit okay but non of my drives got mounted automatically. This is kind of how I have it setup. I uploaded the logon.vbs without changing anything and then I edited the grouplist.csv as follows. In my AD I have a couple of groups. Almost all users belong to GroupA, GroupA also has read/write permissions on the shared drive on rob's-server\share1 but rob's server is not the AD server but this should matter right? I really need this thing to work...too many users to manually mount the drives. No error message either so I don't know what to diagnose, any help will be greatly appreciated. ----------CSV FILE CONTENTS---------- GroupA,M:,\\robs-server\share1 ----------CSV FILE CONTENTS----------

Ha...I figured that was the right way to set it up. X = M, etc. I have 5 drives to mount so using X for all wont' work. How about the printer (!!)? And I'm still only editing .csv right? Thanks

Pretty neat... So the code actually knows what to map the drive letter as? I was going to replace X with the actual shared drive letters. Thanks.

Oh okay...So the only thing to edit is the .csv file? Does this look right? or or should I leave Group name alone. It looks like I should be replacing X with a drive letter but I'm not sure. What about !!? Thanks in advance. Group A,x:,\\my-fs\share Group A,!!,\\myads\printer1

Thanks a lot for that script...It looks pretty neat. I can read scripts and almost any programming language but I'm not good at writing them. I will give this a try in a few. One quick question. Do I load both the .vbs and .csv files to AD->Group Policy->User Configuration->Windows Settings->Scripts(logon/logoff)?

Hi Guys, I need some help with mapping network drives via active directory. Basically I have two servers. Server one is my AD server and Server two is my file server. Server 2 has about 4 shared directories which are mounted as shared drives on that server. These shared drives have group permissions, ie, group A and group B, which also exists in AD under groups. I need to find a script that will allow me to mount these drives automatically when a user logs on. In other words, if user1 belongs to group A, then I would like group A drives to be auto-mounted once the user logs in. I had a login script that accomplished this for 1 drive and one group by using the GPO login script under Group Policy ->Windows settings ->Login script but this same script is not working for multiple shared drives. Anyone have a script I can edit or can someone direct me to a script I can use to test out my scenario? Thanks in advance.

Hmm...Can you explain that again? I have DNS server running on my Windows 2003 and my AD and other workstations are pointing to it. He wanted me to add his workstation to my DNS... I figured what he meant was add his IP as one of the host on my DNS. But I'm curious to hear what you say about me not having my own DNS. The setup I have isn't considered a DNS?

This might sound stupid but how do I add another PC to my DNS? I have a friend who's experimenting with something on his workstation and he wants me to add his PC's IP to my DNS. Thanks

Well, I tried to do this with the x64 edition and the installation went well. However, right after the installation I pop in the motherboard software and I get a big "Not supported OS", so I went ahead and downgraded to the x32 version. Too bad I can't take advantage of the x64 architecture.

So a non profit organization my wife works with needs a computer so I volunteered to build them a free PC. I bought the AMD 64 X2 4600+ and 2 GIG RAM, etc. After I put the system together, I remembered that I had a copy of Windows XP X64 Edition I've never used. I'm thinking about installing this on the PC but am I asking for trouble? How good is the third party support for this version? Will I have to deal with not being able to find drivers and software that can run on this machine? I also have the X32 version but wouldn't the processor power be a waste if I don't use the X64 edition? I've put together a lot of PC's but I've never had to deal with 64 bit Architecture.

BTW...This was being caused by the firewall. I had to disable the firewall from both the workstation and server before I was able to ping each other.

Thanks...I was able to modify a script I found online to work for my needs.

Login Script? I'll look around...I hate scripts/programs...LOL Thanks

On my 2003 Server I have Active Directory running. I have also created a shared folder on the C drive call "thisfolder". I have mounted thisfolder as the Z: drive on the same server. Permissions on the shared directory are set to allow "groupA" to see the shared drive. I log into my notebook which is connected to the same domain, look under my computer but the Z: drive is not automatically mounted. What am I missing here?

Scenario: I have a File Server on network1. This file server has shared drive mounted on other PC's on the same network as Network Drives. I have a couple of PC's on network2 that I would like to access the the network drives. Is it possible to mount shared drives on a PC's that are not on the same network. Network1 and Network2 have different subnets and gateway. Thanks I guess this also applies to if I"m in New Jersey and I have Verizon as my internet provider, can I mount a shared drive on my friend's PC in New York who is using Comcast as their internet provider.

Subnet would only matter if your router could not send information accross different subnets, which doesn't sound like the case Hmm...So, do you have any idea why it is doing this?