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#205218 - 2012-05-09 01:21 PM Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2
xempa Offline
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Hi

As a followup from a recent post "if ingroup Windows 2008 R2" I'm wondering if I jumped the gun a little that although printing is now working via if ingroup , I'm now having problems with simple drive mappings....

After trying various methods I'm hoping someone can point out what I am doing wrong or if there is a fix ?

Both Students and Staff groups are global AD groups and no I have no GPO and no UAC running
Also I am using kix 4.62 on a Windows 2003 server with an XP machine client for testing, I'm yet to try Win 7 . As I also had the same issue running this over a Windows 2008 Domain earlier today

Any help would be appreciated , thanks

 Code:
IF INGROUP(@domain+"\Students")
Use h: @LServer +"\Students$\"+@userID
Endif

IF INGROUP(@domain+"\Staff")
Use h: @LServer +"\Staff$\"+@userID
Endif 
========================================

IF INGROUP("Students")
Use h: "\\DC01\Students$\%username%"
Endif

IF INGROUP("Staff")
Use h: "\\DC01\Staff$\%username%"
Endif 
========================================


Trying to achieve the following 

IF INGROUP(@domain+"\Students")
? "member of students...."
Use h: '\\DC01\Students$\' + @userID
If Not Exist("\\DC01\Students$\%username%")
? "Making home directory for Student...."
    MD "\\DC01\Students$\%username%"
Endif
Endif


IF INGROUP(@domain+"\Staff")
? "member of Staff...."
Use h: '\\DC01\Staff$\' + @userID
If Not Exist("\\DC01\Staff$\%username%")
? "Making home directory for Staff...."
   MD "\\DC01\Staff$\%username%"
Endif
Endif


Edited by Mart (2012-05-09 02:27 PM)
Edit Reason: Please use code tags when posting code.
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#205219 - 2012-05-09 02:36 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
Glenn Barnas Administrator Offline
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A. Why aren't you using AD to create the home directories? When you specify the home dir \\server\Users\%USERNAME% as the home path when you create the user, it will be created with the correct permissions AND mapped automatically without any scripting.

B. If you have more than one DC and the home folders aren't replicated between them, mapping to @LSERVER\Students$\%USERNAME% may have a 50-50 chance of working, less if you have more than two DCs.

C. InGroup() assumes the current domain - no need to specify it.

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#205221 - 2012-05-09 03:41 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: Glenn Barnas]
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my idea is, use @error and @serror to locate the problem.
without access to your environment we can only guess what is going on.
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#205223 - 2012-05-09 04:27 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: Lonkero]
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Maybe the MD command should be BEFORE the use command?
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#205228 - 2012-05-09 05:05 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: ShaneEP]
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I'd be SHOCKED and APPALLED if the user had the permission to create their own folder on the Users share - ESPECIALLY in a school environment. That's a potential violation of security where PII could be stored.

The Kix issue is secondary to the process being followed for user management.

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#205230 - 2012-05-09 11:43 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: Glenn Barnas]
xempa Offline
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Hi many thanks for your responses and yes using AD to create the home share is certainly one way around it. But that aside without even getting into the ethics of home drive creation , my previous "sample" post was probrably a bad example to use. The basic problem of mapping shares can't be differentiated with if ingroup ?

Mapping home drives and shares isn't rocket science and fairly standard stuff in most environments , but even the following sample won't work ...Yes I also ran /d to troubleshoot the script plus /f to flush the cache with no errors. Also checked event logs still no errors

GPO and UAC turned off, only one domain controller ...weird ?

Again any help here would be appreciated.

 Code:
IF INGROUP("Students")
Use h: "\\DC01\ACC"
Endif

IF INGROUP("Staff")
Use h: "\\DC01\MNC"
Endif


Edited by Mart (2012-05-10 09:24 AM)
Edit Reason: Please use code tags when posting code.
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#205231 - 2012-05-10 12:23 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
Allen Administrator Offline
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Try
 Code:
IF INGROUP("Students")
  ? "Mapping Students to H: - "
  Use h: "\\DC01\ACC"
  @serror
Endif


Does the message appear and display the error code?
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#205233 - 2012-05-10 01:04 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: Allen]
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and if you are trying it in logonscript, add get $:
 Code:
IF INGROUP("Students")
  ? "Mapping Students to H: - "
  Use h: "\\DC01\ACC"
  @serror
  if @error
   "press any key to continue"
   get $
  endif
Endif


and no, kixtart doesn't write errors to eventlog unless it itself has an internal issue OR you tell it to write there.
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#205234 - 2012-05-10 01:18 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: Allen]
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Hi thanks for that , unfortunatley still no difference without any errors. It's like it can't read any groups from AD. I also tried running @enumgroup which gives only 0 when run. Does this mean it can't see any groups ..I wonder ? Strangely enough it can map printers by if ingroup ?

Thanks
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#205235 - 2012-05-10 01:40 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
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@enumgroup?

do you mean Enumgroup()?

there is a simple example in the documentation:
http://www.kixtart.org/?p=commandRef#_Toc146265742
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#205236 - 2012-05-10 01:51 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
xempa Offline
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Hi again it's like it can only see domain users and nothing else ?
Cheers
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#205237 - 2012-05-10 03:30 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
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Great I found it !!!!

I was using universal and global groups. Once I swapped it to local domain it ran like a charm. Thanks to you who have been helping me

Cheers
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#205238 - 2012-05-10 03:40 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
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uhm. universal and global groups weren't seen by kixtart?
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#205239 - 2012-05-10 10:32 AM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: Lonkero]
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Correct , kixtart couldn't be seen by either global or universal which sounds rearly odd it does however work with local domain..it doesn't make sense to me either ?

Any idea what could cause this as a side note ?

Cheers
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#205240 - 2012-05-10 01:48 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
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Truly the oddest thing, now global groups are now working ????
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#205241 - 2012-05-10 02:12 PM Re: Help again with If ingroup Windows 2008 R2 [Re: xempa]
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Remember to delete the cache when changing groups.
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