I'm about as new as you can get to kixtart, and I've had to hit the ground running. I need to come up with a login script that will copy a file down to a client machine if the source file is newer than the source. This will only happen if the user is a member of a particular NT global group. I don't know enough about kixtart yet to determine if it's best to make this part of the rest of the script or to make a call to a seperate script. At the moment, I have the below code in my script and it's not working.

IF INGROUP ("AODB") = 1
md c:\ausopen
RUN "xcopy p:\ausopen\*.* c:\ausopen\*.* /d"
SLEEP 10
END IF

Nasty I know. This lumped in with the rest of the login script. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I might change the code or if I should use another program to copy the file, that would be great. The clients are mostly Win98. Thanks.

A question and some suggetions:

1) Is your INGROUP() working properly ? I mean, is it properly determining group membership and trying to perform the xcopy ? Might try putting in a display statement after the ingroup() just to make sure:

IF INGROUP ("AODB") = 1
?"User is member of AODB"
...
ENDIF

2) I would code your xcopy using the shell command, like this:

shell '%comspec% /c xcopy p:\ausopen\*.* c:\ausopen\*.* /d'

this usage will automatically wait for the xcopy to finish and you can get rid of the sleep 10 !

3) The END IF should be coded as ENDIF

-Shawn

Check out the different xcopy switches available to see which fit your purpose. Some only exist in certain versions of Windows.

Check the above post as well.

Go C:
SHELL "XCOPY C:\MyDocu~1\*.* U:\MDBackup\*.* /i /e /r /y /k /h /q"

[ 04 January 2002: Message edited by: kix me ]