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thank you all for your replies. I know that daemon is simple enought @byabba, thanks for your honesty!!! @ricktendo64, thanks for the warning! lets see how it works outs with our 'lovely' ever genious users. ceez

n00b proof....these people re-define n00b!!! I thought of daemon tools also, but somehow i think that's too out there..

zup every1, I need the simplest and id*** proof image mounting utility out there, preferably free/shareware. Something that we can tell the users: doubleclick, select next, and right click somewhere and mount image. our users are a little on the 'dee-dee-dee' side. thanks.

@chilifrei64, thanks. I was talking about the adapter properties. I will check out the dchp scope properties. and... I just want to make sure i am looking in the right place, go to dhcp, scope, scope options, right click "configure options", [advanced] tab, check "#45 NetBIOS over TCP/IP NBDD - NetBIOS over TCP/IP NBDD address(es) in priority order". I also have the same option under the [General] Tab thanks!

zup fellow msfn-ers!?!? I was wondering if there's a way that we can force enabling this settings. For some reasons the workstations in our domain sometime get 'missconfigured' eventhough this is a setting we enable when deploying workstations....yet it has a mind of its own, we need to force it on everytime the user logs in. thanks for your help ceez

@vim, works like a charm! thanks a mill!!!

zup fellow msfn-ers....? I would like to stop and start service via dos. I type 'net help services' and it lists some services that I can start by using net start <servicename>. But the service I am trying to restart is a blackberry service. How can I list all the services so I know the correct name? Then I assume I would use net stop <servicename> and then net start <servicename>. thanks for the help ceez

@hosebeast, that is excellent, just was i was looking for! I googled that csvde and a good resource site for anyone else interested http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/Logon_CSVDE.htm thanks again, I wonder why that command never came up in any of my google searches!?!?!

Hello fellow msfn'ers! We currently have about 30 different logon scripts and i know for a fact that not all of them are being used. I want to clean them up from our sysvol\scripts folder and only leave the one's that are being used. Is there a way to enumerate all the accounts in AD and have it 'spit out' the logon scripts for the users? This way i can compare the list to the scripts that we have and delete the ones that are not used. thanks for your help, ceez ps- actually had 65 scripts, cut it down to 50! So much easier now when having to edit scripts, i am not wasting time fixing 15 useless ones!

heck why would you even like those annoying smileys?!?!? to each its own i guess!!! get rid of the whole thing....it will be best.

hey i was looking for something like this earlier! good timing! thanks. my questions is, does anyone know if this can be used in a logon script batch file. (map drives at logon which users love to close) I am trying it on a script and running locally on my machine, it works, but it wont continue running the script unless you press enter, then the drives map. any thoughts? thanks again

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Hello everyone, Users at work love closing out those lovely login script windows that map their drives, printers and inventories their workstations. I am trying to find a way of disabling or removing the [x] close button from the dos batch window. This way they can't close them. The batch files were converted to .com files, which before would prevent them from closing; but somehow (could of been some sort of windows update) now they are able to close them out. I googled but seem to find 3rd party apps that need to be installed locally on pc's, not quiet what i am looking for. thank you, ceez Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. --Sonic

@quickdraw, i see that you seem to have solved the mysterious reboot... in my experience it actually was Windows Update. We also use WSUS but yet the updates require those reboots, even if you're controlling them. Just in case you might want to check your gp: Comp config - admin templates - windows components - windows update. You will see the various options there. Might be a good thing to configure either way, those updates are sneaky, it sure gave us headaches for at least 3 weeks on the same days as you.

hello fellow msfn'ers? As always there are users out there that for some reason REFUSE to log off their machines.... The one's that wonder why something doesnt work since they never log off and policies never get updated...but i digress. What I am trying to accomplish is for XP to logoff when it's midnight. By the time morning comes around the users will HAVE TO log in again. And how about for those that actually LOCK their workstations? when they unlock in the morning, will XP logoff or will it stay logged in? I was wondering what do you use to automatically log off users. I know we can set log on hours, but in an architectural firm the CADD techs come in early, leave late or work overnight and not allowing them logon access would just give us more problems. I've looked at Winexit.scr which is from the server 2k tools but I cant figure out a way of deploying it and having it run at a certain time, ie: midnight. I found an ADM file, but need to play with that one a bit more. I've looked into creating a batch file which contains the AT command and creating a task that runs at midnight, but for some reason it doesnt run. It says 'running' but nothing happens. Yet when I try it on my home pc (not in a domain of course) it works just fine. This job will then run a batch file which will also be deployed via GP to somewhere in the users HD in some inconspicuous location BTW, this is what my scripts looks like: for the task creation: at 23:59 "c:\forceshut.bat" in this example the batch file is in the 'inconspicious location' of root!!! for the logoff portion (forceshut.bat) I am using shutdown.exe which comes with XP: C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe -l -t 3 -f switches: l =logoff | t =wait 3 secs | f =force application termination I know I need some more testing on the tasks in a domain environment, but I would still like to know what you guys use. thanks for reading! ceez

nmX.Memnoch, I figured out the problem... For some reason GPO's dont like xcopy. I changed it to the good ol' 'copy' command and it works perfectly. No need to assign any security rights to the fonts folder. Thanks again for your help! ceez

we also had 1 user with the same problem today, not bad compared to 230 users. add/remove programs and removed it. fixed the issue.

nmX.Memnoch, the users have local administrator rights to their machines. would that still make a difference? either way i'll try the computer login. thanks, ceez btw, here's my simple script: update: does not work under computer configuration, yet when I go to the patch of the batch and run it, it works.

hello fellow msfn'ers! I need to deploy 9 different font files to all our workstations and want to use a batch file. I created, tested, and works when running the batch file directly from my pc. Created the GP as a login script under users, enforced, enabled and applied to the OU's. Ran GPUpdate on our DC 2003 Enterprise. Restarted (not log off/log on), but when I log in the fonts do not copy over. Our regular login scripts run but not the fonts one. Is there any limitations on the amount of batch files/logon scripts that a server/client can run? Am I missing anything? Thanks, ceez

at work we use a software called "userlock" and currently have it to allow only 2 logins. Pretty simple to use. In regards to the limitlogin our IT Director used to use it but says that it wasnt all the reliable. go figure!

ok my vote goes for the sysinternal tool very simple to use and it seems like it worked. The user is not in so I cant have him try to log in to see if it "REALLY" works. just ran adrestore -r and it enumerated all the objects, once I found what I needed I just selected "Y" to restore and BINGO, back in AD! I just had to enable it and assign the user name to the computer object. thanks again, ceez

wow, thanks to everyone for sharing your information.... I know there's a reason why I love this forum & msfn! I'll try all the options and hopefully one of them will work. I also tried that ldap tool from the 03 server tools with no luck, even following MS instructions. Those kb's never work! Thanks again, ceez

@!fizban2, thanks for the reply. I was hoping that there would be a way of doing this without getting the end user involved. You would figure that MS would have a way of adding a computer if deleted. oh well. Thanks!

A computer was deleted accidentaly from AD and now the user cant log in. This is a remote user else we would of just walked up to the workstation and remove/rejoin to domain. I added the computer name manually but it does not show a DNS Name under the general properties tab, and under the operating system tab it does not show any info. I tried to log in via Term Srvcs but it still displays the typical error message ..."computer account not found..." Is there a way to populate it so it works without having to walk the user through removing and rejoining domain? Thanks for the help,