Group Policy Logon Script error

[Duran]

Hello,

I am having an error with a logon script I am using in my AD domain, the OS's are 2003 R2. To be honest this is more out of curiousity as the script still works, but I wonder how I could prevent the error. Ran asynchonously I can see the DOS box begin with...

'\\domainname.local\SysVol\domainname.local\Policies\{10F46A88-2426-4D2B}\User\Scripts\Logon'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

It then goes on to do its job ok. I did try putting in the actual path begining with C: etc, but then it didnt work at all. The error bothers me even though its not causing a problem as such. Any idea's anyone?

Thank you for any replys.

Regards,
D.

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[porkchopexpress]

CMD tried to open in the current directory which is a UNC path as it doesn't support UNC it defaults to a local path for it's working directory.

What it the script doing, i take it it's a .bat file?

 

[Duran]

Hello, Big Trouble in Little China, must have seen that a thousand times. Thanks for your reply, yes its a .bat file. I tried a local path but it didnt work at all with that.

Regards,
D

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[porkchopexpress]

Have you seen this link?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156276

You might be able to add a line in your .bat file to change the current path to a local path before the rest of the commands run e.g cd /d c:\temp


Yes Big Trouble what a classic

 

[gmail2]

This isn't perfect, but it does the trick !!

cmd /k "C:"

This will launch cmd then run the command C: (which switches to C: drive). It won't switch to the root of C: though.

Hope this is of some help

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[markdmac]

Ditch the batch file and go with VBScript. Refer to my FAQ for full example code and easy to add options.

faq329-5798

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

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