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I wanted to do this with some files onto the hard drive of every computer (it was a screen saver advertising the upcoming Oliver production at the school). I was able to copy the file and configure the screen saver.

I have used a script that copied the files at login.

This could be adapted to copy the file to the users home directory without too much problem.

Use the @USERID in the command like this:

copy source \\masternt\@USERID\filename

This should work fine.

code:

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BREAK ON
;Assuming NT use %comspec% if mixed 9x/NT
$server = "\\mightymouse"
$share = "C$"
$file = file.ext
shell "cmd /c dir $server\$share /ad/b > dirlist.txt"
OPEN (1, "dirlist.txt")
$dir = readline (1)
WHILE @ERROR = 0
copy "$file" "$server\$share\$dir\"
$dir = readline (1)
LOOP
:cleanup
del dirlist.txt

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This dumps a bare list of directories to a file. The file is then opened by kix and each line is read in. A file is copied to each direcitory. It does this until it cannot read any more lines from the dirlist.txt file (until @error is not 0).

[This message has been edited by JasonC (edited 14 June 2001).]

If you have not created real shares for each user (instead of the pseudo shares created by the User manager) you may have difficulty doing this on the server. Getting into the default user directories is difficult. They are created as owned by the user with no one else permitted any type of file access. No share permissions are set at all. In order to get access you must take ownership of the user directory which breaks the users access. Catch-22.

The users directories are hidden shares that is:-

\\srvnme\users\usrname$ so each user is shared out. All I want to do is copy a file from a directory into each user directory.

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The other possibility is a variant of what ghost recommends - doing it at logon. I believe that several scripts have been posted recently for spanning a directory tree. Adapt one to suit your needs.