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#185438 - 2008-02-18 04:50 PM Re: Kix+Forms+Active Directory [Re: Mart]
Richard H. Administrator Offline
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Not quite the full story.

The problem is that you cannot rely on the "user" part of the path being @USERID.

For various reasons Windows will decide that the local version of the users profile is invalid or unusable, so it will create a new directory. A common cause is that you lose read / write permission to the directory.

Depending on the version of Windows, the new directory may include the domain name, or it may use an increasing numeric suffix, i.e. "jdoe.001".

The only way to know which one of the profiles really applies to the user is to rip the expanded path from the registry (or use %USERPROFILE%)

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#185440 - 2008-02-18 05:07 PM Re: Kix+Forms+Active Directory [Re: Richard H.]
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 Quote:
duo
$inifile="C:\Documents and Settings\duo\Desktop\newlogscript\sample.ini"

This is a configuration file, and placing it in the user folder is probably not a good idea, whether hard coded or not. If this is a config file for the login script, it should probably be referenced as \\%USERDOMAIN%\netlogon\%USERID%.ini

Every one of our systems has a specific place for scripts, and another for common (shared) configuration files. These are defined by Environment Variables S_BIN and S_CONFIG. This way, one script knows where other scripts are found, and always knows where to find local config files.

Just another way to skin the (mmrrrrroOOOWWWWWW) cat!

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#185446 - 2008-02-18 09:16 PM Re: Kix+Forms+Active Directory [Re: Arend_]
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 Originally Posted By: apronk
didn't try on vista yet but wouln't %userprofile% and %appdata% provide the corrent paths in all OS's ?



No they do not(for what i need), case in point

Server 03
S:\>echo %appdata%
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data

S:\>echo %userprofile%
C:\Documents and Settings\username


Vista
S:\scripting\newlogscript>echo %userprofile%
C:\Users\username

S:\scripting\newlogscript>echo %appdata%
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming


03/XP dont use appdata for location of users start menu


Edited by duo (2008-02-18 09:17 PM)

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#185454 - 2008-02-19 01:42 AM Re: Kix+Forms+Active Directory [Re: Mart]
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 Originally Posted By: Mart
I think Les means to say that one should never hardcode the username (eg. jsmith) but use the @userid macro so if a users gets renamed stuff will still work. This way it will work for all users it applies so you don’t have to create separate scripts or lines for each user.
No, both are evil as has already been explained.
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