I've been using Kixstart for just about forever and have run into a new (for me anyway) problem that I hope can be solved easily. I have 5 win2k domain controllers located at 4 different sites, 1 main building houses 2 of them, and the three others are at sites connected T-1's. I used to run 4 different domains, but recently merged them all into one large Active directory enabled domain. All works fine except that my off-site user's scripts very often will run from a far-away server, not the one local to them. I can't seem to find any way to change this in Win2k, and there appears to be no real pattern to it. i.e. log in and out a dozen times and you stand the chance of getting any of the DC's to run the script. My scripts are simple, mapping drives according to groups, setting printers, etc. but it still slows down the logon process a lot. Workstations are a mix of 95, 98, and Win2k. Thank you for any advice!

Bob

Im not if its the same as NT but when logging on its which ever server responds first that determines which server you get logged onto.

I have this problem, but i just added a script that looks at the computer name then map drives to which ever server you want

e;g

code:

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$SysNo=@WKSTA
addprinterconnection(\\upperbdc\KyoL12)
setdefaultprinter(\\upperbdc\KyoL12)
AT (14,15) "Connected Laser Printer"

If InGroup("Domain Admins")
use * /DELETE
sleep 2
use s: \\upperserver\y2001
use t: \\upperserver\y97
use u: \\upperserver\y98
use v: \\upperserver\y99
use w: \\upperserver\y2000
use z: \\upperserver\Menus
use x: \\upperbdc\MultiMediaApps
use y: \\upperbdc\netlogon
use g: \\upperserver2\admin
use p: @HOMESHR
at (15,15) "Drives Connected"
EndIf
If InGroup("Students")
use * /DELETE
sleep 2
use z: \\upperbdc\Menus
use x: \\upperbdc\MultiMediaApps
use y: \\upperbdc\netlogon
use p: @HOMESHR
at (15,15) "Drives Connected"
EndIf
If InGroup("Staff")
use * /DELETE
sleep 2
use z: \\upperbdc\Menus
use x: \\upperbdc\MultiMediaApps
use y: \\upperbdc\netlogon
use g: \\upperserver2\admin
use w: \\upperserver\scienceadmin
use p: @HOMESHR 
at (15,15) "Drives Connected"
EndIf
at (16,15) "Dont forget to logoff when you have finished working"
sleep 5
return

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