Server 2003 question

Raumarik · 26 Apr 2006 at 09:34

Annoyingly I've only just got my new servers and urgently need to copy just ONE tiny text files (fmhosts.txt) to every workstation in the building including everything from window 95 to XP.

Sadly any scripts I try to setup fail, they don't appear to like DOS commands for whatever reason. I'm still trying to sort it out this way but is there a tool in Server 2003 that would let me do this? typically I haven't been sent on training BEFORE the servers came in, that'd be far to clever

I'd even settle for getting just the xp and 2k machines sorted for now.

Give me back NT4 damn it!

Otacon · 26 Apr 2006 at 09:55

Your shell login scripts should be enough, you probably just have the syntax wrong. Paste it in here.

Raumarik · 26 Apr 2006 at 10:01

yeah sorted it now, step by step until I noticed the GLARING error in it!

Cheers!

The_KiD · 26 Apr 2006 at 10:36

Indeed placing a script in the \\servername\netlogon share called login.bat or somwething similar then placing the following in the file:

Code:

@echo 
copy <path to copy from> <path to copy to>

The user must have rights to the <path from> and rights to write to <path to>

Raumarik · 26 Apr 2006 at 13:20

my problem was the name of the directory I was copying too was named oddly and I forgot to put in the .0 at the end of filmak~1.0

typical that it's something so simple!

a1ex2001 · 26 Apr 2006 at 14:05

It's always the simple things, if i had a quid for every time i'd doe something similar I wouldn't be working here!