Ifmember.exe works locally, but not from network

[penguinroundup]

I am trying to get this ^!&@$# login script to work properly from my SYSVOL share, but I keep getting the error message "ifmember is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" - then the script maps ALL the drives, and does not check group membership. I have the ifmember.exe file in my SYSVOL share along with the script. If I run the batch file locally (i.e. from the hard drive), it works perfectly. Here is a snippet of my batch file:


**a bunch of net use /deletes are here, removed to save space} the regular mappings below work fine**

net use p: \\mydc1\public /y %switch%
net use s: \\mydc1\apps /y %switch%
net use m: \\myserver\mp /Y %SWITCH%
NET USE I: \\mydc1\EXHIBIT /Y %SWITCH%
NET USE Y: \\mydc1\CALENDAR /Y %SWITCH%


ifmember mydomain\IT
if not errorlevel 1 goto next1
net use Q: \\mydc2\IT


:next1
ifmember "mydomain\Corporate Data"
if not errorlevel 1 goto next2
net use t: \\mydc1\Data


:next2
ifmember mydomain\Signature
if not errorlevel 1 goto next3
net use X: \\mydc1\Signature

:next3
ifmember mydomain\DnD
if not errorlevel 1 goto next4
net use o: \\mydc2\D&D

**there's a bunch of these, I only included a few. I have tried specifying the UNC path to the ifmember executable file (\\mydc1\sysvol\ifmember.exe mydomain\IT...), but that didn't help. I'm SO close to getting this to work, what am I doing wrong???

thanks in advance for any help.

 

[ascotta]

I stopped using ifmember about nbillion years ago, I found kix, it does it much better. None of these goto rubbish.

Worth a look anyway, as it is free.

[blue]Arguably the best cat skinner around ! [/blue]

Cheers
Scott

 

[NortonES2]

When you run it locally which machine are you running it on? The only way I got this to work was to copy ifmember.exe to the local windows\system32 folder by having the following line at the start of the logon script.

copy %logonserver%\sysvol\ifmember.exe %systemroot%\system32

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[penguinroundup]

problem with that is, our users don't have rights to copy files to their systems.

ascotta, I created a kixtart script, but I need to call an executable that audits the local machine hw & sw. I tried RUN <path to executable>, but all that does is display the filepath in the command line. how do I do that?

thanks!