Have you ever heard of the old saying

"If it is not broken, Don't fix it!"

Then I copied the files locally to the clients to try to cut that time down. Then I got missing/deleted files, permission issues in copying the files, and issues in updating/adding new functionality, with the need to distribute new files.

Then I discovered Kixtart in the reskit (sound of heavenly trumpets)... All that other crap went away, I have kix32.exe in the users windir, and it can do THOUSANDS of times more stuff than virtually every dos utility combined.

If you want it done in a logonscript Kix will do it, and usually alot easier that in DOS, and a hundred times easier than WSH.

BTW, it is very fast, and 4.02 is supposed to be even faster determining SIDs and Group stuff.

You could probably post a hunk of your bat file, and some of here could convert it to kix to give you examples and pointers.

Some of us here spend a great deal of time on ASCII art, and would welcome a challenge.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Some of the big posters like Shawn, MCA, Bryce, etc should be able to dissemble the actual processing involved.

I run the script remotely through (slow)dialup connections with kix32 on the local machine, and am hard pressed to notice a real difference in processing speed compared to a LAN connection.

The most noticable slowdown occurs during the attaching of shares, but that is due to dialup, not the script.

I have about several hundred (500+) lines of code (60kb) in my logon script and it processes in about 30-45 seconds

LAN is faster, Wan is slower.

The more network connections made the slow it takes, as the OS is making connections.

This is a link to an older version of my script. use the next button on the page to go to the subsequent sections.

Logon script methodology (part 1)

The remainder of the functions are named with very logical names.

If you can speak it in pseudo-code, you will not have much to do to covert it to kix. There are some more advanced functions that require more overhead.

But a batch file can ALMOST be converted line-by line... (within reason)

a For/next loop is invaluable.

Builtin registry functions.

Very fast

Easy to learn

RTFM you can DL it from this site if you don't already have it

code:

---

if ingroup("groupname")
use h: "\\server\sharename"
endif
if ingroup("anothergroup")
$ret=addprinterconnection("\\server\printername")
endif

---

can't get much easier than that...

and then can I call the variable as %varname%

can I use commands as I normally would in bat style such as copy or xcopy or ping

Can I use all normal DOS shell stlye commands?

as for external commands, you can SHELL or RUN those commands.

shell '%comspec% /c dir c:\ /s/b'

shell will pause script execution until the called command is finished. RUN will execute the program abd continus executing the script.

Bryce