Have a small School network Server 2003 with two groups, Staff and Students. I have installed a program on the server and have a shortcut icon on the Administrators desktop. How can I put this on the staff desktop.
Is it a terminal server?
I would probably do it via login scripts - have the script for group membership and then copy the shortcuts to the desktop from a central place - ie as below (from my login script - its Kix)
; PUT SHORTCUTS ON USERS DESKTOP
SHELL '@LSERVER\NETLOGON\robocopy /purge /r:0 "@LSERVER\NETLOGON\Shortcut" "%UserProfile%\Desktop" "*.*"'
You will find that the shortcut lives in c:\documents and settings\adminsitrator\desktop, if you copied it to c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop it would appear on everyones desktop for example (if it was a terminal server).
With a little more info we can probably point you in the right direction.
It is a domain server running windows server2003, the workstations are all windows XP. Have not set up any roaming profiles as yet.
Server was running NT4 with Win98se workstations.Formatted server drives fresh install of server 2003 installed with workstations running XP(steep learning curve for me as a newbie to networking).
Are the groups in AD? If so I would do the following in my login script:
DO
$GROUP = EnumGroup($Index)
SELECT
CASE $GROUP="DOMAIN\ADMIN"
SHELL '@LSERVER\NETLOGON\robocopy /purge /r:0 "@LSERVER\NETLOGON\AdminShortcuts" "%UserProfile%\Desktop" "*.*"'
CASE $GROUP="DOMAIN\STUDENT"
SHELL '@LSERVER\NETLOGON\robocopy /purge /r:0 "@LSERVER\NETLOGON\StudentShortcuts" "%UserProfile%\Desktop" "*.*"'
EndSelect
$Index = $Index + 1
Until Len($Group) = 0
The script above is a KIX Script; you may need to modify for whatever login solution you use.
Then copy the shortcuts to the StudentShotcuts adn AdminShotcuts folders on your netlogon share.
This should copy the shortcuts onto the users desktop.
Kix is an add on tool called kix32; google it. Robocopy is a tool from the NT resource kit, google it to find somewhere to download it.
AD is Active Directory. Do you use it? If so you need to create some groups in it to distinguish between staff and students; let me know if you do or not and we will go from there.
xyorkie,
Currently, how are people logging into the XP machines that you have out there? You stated that you have a domain, but do not know what Active Directory (AD) is?
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