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Christian-Josef Schrattenthaler
Hi!

I have a batch-file (*.bat) which logon the client to our server, including
printer and drive mappings.

Now I want to replace the batch-file with a script for the windows scripting
host, because I want the users to enter their username and password, and
then the script should make the mappings suitable to the username...

I lookd for the WSH and VBSCRIPT and JSCRIPT, but I didn't get any usable
information!

Is it possible, to write such a script? Or does the WSH not support this
feature?

Thanks and greetings,
Christian.
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A Google search of "WSH Logon script" returned:

WSH Logon Scripts
http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4760&pg=1
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Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (VIP)
Christian-Josef Schrattenthaler wrote:

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In VBScript, you can use InputBox to ask for username and password,
and MapNetworkDrive to map a network drive supplying username and
password if needed.

Note that you can pick up the current user name like this:

Set objWshNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strCurrentLoggedInUser = objWshNet.UserName
WScript.Echo strCurrentLoggedInUser

You can also from your vbscript use the Internet Explorer object
to ask for and mask password input, take a look here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3EB7E661.7D857459%40hydro.com

The script in the link above requires IE 5.5+, if you want the script
to work on IE 5.01 as well, remove the following two lines (this will
re-enable right-click menu on the dialog):

& " onContextmenu='window.event.cancelbubble=true" _
& ":window.event.returnvalue=false'" _

If you have Win98 or WinME computers, this might be relevant for the
PasswordBox routine in the link above:

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=e3496be5.0309162049.6c28474e%40posting.google.com

WSH 5.6 documentation (local help file) can be downloaded from here
if you haven't got it already:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp

--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
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Christian-Josef Schrattenthaler
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I know InputBox, but I can only ask for one. It is not possible to create a
windows which asks for the username and the password. Or do you have a hint,
how this works?

Greetings,
Christian.
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Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (VIP)
Christian-Josef Schrattenthaler wrote:

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Did you take a look at the other link I gave you? You can use the
Internet Explorer object to do this (as the script in the link in
my other post in this thread do).

--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
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And another approach is to use HTML application (HTA).
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Jared
Pardon me, but, am I missing something? Your users have just authenticated
to your domain, and now, you want them to supply their credentials all over
again just to map their drives and printers? In my opinion this should be
transparent to the end user. You can use WSH to get the username of the
currently logged on user, use that to map as desired. I would hate to work
in your company, logging in twice???

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