Hello all, A friend turned me on to Kixtart about a year or two ago. He set it up on my local server so it would map drives for users based on the group they were affiliated with in AD. For the most part it works with out any problems what so ever. My network has grown and now I have a VPN with two sites. I have a second Windows 2003 AD server at the off site location. I know little to no programming and have run into a problem with the script timing out at my remote site. This happens at random times but seems to be more often on computers that are used by multiple users. I found when this happens I can sometime get the script to load by deleting temp folders and stuff. This may have nothing to do with why it works after I do that but being I am not a programmer and know nothing about scripts it was the best I could offer and it seems to work. So I am here to try to fined a solution to this on going problem. Here is what I have and also the latest thing I have tried to implement to fix the problem.
Users have login.bat file attached to there account profile to launch once they log in. This .bat file reads this.. START /W \\AD1\NETLOGON\KIX32.EXE MAIN.TXT
What I tried to do was make a new .bat file that pointed to the remote server so it would get the files from there rather then come back to the main office to get the kix32.exe and main.txt files. The new file was named hilliard.bat and the code in it reads.. START /W \\Hilliard-Server\NETLOGON\KIX32.EXE MAIN.TXT
I then changed the wording in the users profile to read hilliard.bat. Now when the user tries to log in I would think it would read this new file and grab the files it needed from the remote server and hopefully not time out. Well it didn’t work. In fact it didn’t even load at all. So maybe I am going about this the wrong way completely. Can anyone give me some Ideas on what to do or try next? Thanks in advance. Bill
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