Logon Script based on Group Membership

[sweeneyt]

I would like to consolidate a few GPO that map network drives based on Group membership. This would be similar to how NetWare uses "If Member of"

[AdamV]

Do you have a scripting language preference?

If you are familiar with Novell scripting then porting that knowledge across to using KixTart should be really easy (rather than learning VBS from scratch if you don't have those skills already). Syntax for many command is very similar to normal command shell language, with a few minor variations (eg "Use" in Kix does pretty much what "Net use" does for mapping to shares)

www.kixtart.org

Kix works across various OS platforms so it is good for mixed environments too, even for non-GPO machines (NT, 9x). Essentially you run an exe with the script file as a parameter. You can call a kix script from inside another kix script without starting a new copy of the exe.

Kix includes a built-in function "InGroup" so you can use
IF InGroup("Sales Users") then foo else bar

Or use it in a CASE statement for several group tests rather than using nested IFs (say, map X to a different share for each department)

InGroup fully supports AD group nesting, so if you have SalesManagers as a group inside SalesUsers inside AllUsers, then a user in SalesManagers would be accepted as a member of any of these three by the InGroup function (actually this is because of the way the user token is created, not some cleverness of Kix, but worth knowing).