Scripts on a domain

[iamtheoneneo]

My home server (Win12R2) is set to send a login script to users that connect via a domain allocated username through other network based machines. Its pretty standard stuff.

The script flushes the network drives on that users machine, then reinstates them followed by running a small test file which is then deleted on each of the drives to ensure they have spoiled up correctly.

The script works fine, and does exactly what it is meant to do. It is in place to avoid the annoying 'windows can not connect to network drives' error message on boot.

However when a domain user logs in I sometimes have occurrences where the script is not run at all.

Does anyone know why this would happen and are there any good ways of checking to see if the server is even attempting to issue the script on the occasions it doesn't work?

ie. would this likely be a server or client side issue?

 

[iamtheoneneo]

can a mod move this to servers please?

 

[the-evaluator]

Can you post the script?

I stopped using scripts some time ago, adding mappings by GPO is (in my experience) much more reliable.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

The script is not the issue though, its the fact that it doesn't even seem to load at all sometimes. I can clearly see when it does load as the command prompt appears on the client with the script activating.

Does GP mappings eliminate the common windows error of it thinking its not able to connect to the server drive on startup?

 

[the-evaluator]

I can't remember having any problems since we switched over to using GPO. ABE might be worth a look too.

 

[LizardKing]

Disable the following
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/305293
(or use GPO's )

 

[swain90]

I've seen issues with cached polices.

Maybe worth deleting everything out of here; %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Group Policy\History and also look at this link; https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/201453

Give that a try and see if it improves things.