Vista - VBScript that removes and then maps Network Drives - Richard Mueller - are you there?

Good morning!

This is specifically for Richard Mueller (whose scripts I 'steal' all the
time!) regarding one of his logon scripts.

Richard, I use "logon3" (http://www.rlmueller.net/Programs/Logon3.txt for
those of you not familiar with his site) from your web site and it works
very well. I do a lot of things with Security Groups and this specific
logon script is awesome. I modify it to fit each environment and away we
go.

However, there are two questions that I have regarding it that I can not
seem to understand:

1) if the client has previously mapped network drives (either manually
mapped or via a .bat/.cmd logon script) when I implement your logon script
we have a hard time with the "old" mappings going away. About the only way
that we can resolve this issue is to manually connect to the machine and
disconnect the old mappings. What am I doing wrong?

2) the section on the printers - I was really excited about that part. Then
I looked at it. I have a couple of clients who - for a lot of different
good reasons - have locked down their printes to specific users. I
accomplished this via Security Groups. I was tring to map the printers
based on USER group membership. It appears that this script is intended for
using security groups of which the COMPUTER is a member. Is there a way to
'modify' this so that the focus is on the USER group membership?

Thanks! I really appreciate all of the time that you spend helping the
scripting - challenged (like me....but I am working on it).

Cary

Tasha wrote:
Logon3.vbs has a MapDrive function to handle conflicts if the user has
persistent connections. The function first attempts to map the specified
drive and traps any errors. If there is an error the function then removes
any existing mapping. The first "True" parameter on the RemoveNetworkDrive
method means to remove the mapping even if it is in use. The second "True"
specifies that the removal is persistent (if the mapping was persistent, the
registry setting that makes the mapping persistent is removed). Perhaps this
later functionality no longer works on the newer clients, since registry
permissions are much tighter. I will need to investigate. The function
worked fine when I tested on clients up to XP.

Note that the script only removes mappings that conflict with the mappings
specified in the logon script. If you want to remove all existing mappings
(whether or not they conflict with the logon script), you can use the
EnumNetworkDrives function of the wshNetwork object. I believe the code
would be:
======
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set objDrives = objNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives
For j = 0 To objDrives.Count - 2 Step 2
objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive objDrive(j), objDrive(j + 1)
Next
======
This won't help you if the RemoveNetworkDrive function is not working for
you.
The part of the script that maps printers according to computer group
membership can be easily modified for user group membership. Simply pass the
object reference objUser instead of objComputer to the IsMember function in
logon3.vbs. In fact, there is no longer any need to bind to the objComputer
object. The code that retrieves the DN of the computer object (and assigns
to strComputerDN) can be removed, and the code that binds objComputer can be
removed. Simply remove all lines referring to strComputerDN or objComputer
(after replacing objComputer with objUser in all calls to IsMember). I hope
this helps.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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Sorry, I used RemoveNetworkDrive incorrectly in my snippet to remove all
drive mappings. It should be:

Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set objDrives = objNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives
For j = 0 To objDrives.Count - 2 Step 2
objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive objDrive(j), True, True
Next

In fact, here is a similar example from the Microsoft site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...5/hey0915.mspx

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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Research shows that some people have reported they need to insert a pause
(Wscript.Sleep 1000) between the .RemoveNetworkDrive and .MapNetworkDrive
function calls. If I get a chance I may try to test on a fast client. The
MapDrive function could be modified as follows:

If (objDrive.DriveType = 3) Then
objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDrive, True, True
Wscript.Sleep 1000
Else

This inserts a 1 second pause between the RemoveNetworkDrive and
MapNetworkDrive calls. Reply if this helps.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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Richard,

Regarding the printers.....I did make that change and no love. Only if I
removed the Group Membership part would it work.

Odd....

Environments are WIN2003 Server/WIN2003 R2 Server/SBS2003 Server/WINXP
SP2/SP3...

I will continue to try this....

I will also look at the part regarding the mapping of network drives.

Thanks (as always).

Cary

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