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Permission denied for domain users - VBscript

Asked by: midwest_rocker

Hello Experts -

I have an error that is generated after logging in an account on my domain after running a login script (vb script - attached below).

I noticed this error is coming from the 2nd Domain controller, versus the one i created the script on.
I checked the permissions on the share - which are correct for the given situation.

The actual script is shown under the error message.

'login script location
\\servername-01\\NETLOGON\login.vbs
Line: 18
Char: 1
Error: Permission Denied
Code: 800a0046
Source: Microsoft Runtime Error
 
'login script
dim objFSO, sourcelocation, targetlocation
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sourcelocation = "\\server\share\Shortcut.url"
targetlocation = "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Shortcut.url"
 
objFSO.CopyFile sourcelocation, targetlocation, true

                                  
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2008-07-15 at 06:27:41ID23565930
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Answers

 

by: WalkaboutTiggerPosted on 2008-07-15 at 06:48:02ID: 22006927

Are you authenticating to the client machine as a local administrator or as a power user?  If not, you cannot write to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop" unless file permissions are set appropriately.  The group Users, by default, does not have Modify or Write permissions to this directory.

Walkabout

 

by: midwest_rockerPosted on 2008-07-15 at 08:13:45ID: 22007803

I am authenticating to a client machine as a power user. Of course, if I log in using an admin accnt, it works fine.

I guess I thought power users would have access to write to that dir in particular. Is there another possible solution to have the icon created to each users desktop upon log-in?

 

by: WalkaboutTiggerPosted on 2008-07-15 at 12:22:01ID: 22010112

Have you considered using the value set in the environment variable %UserProfile% and simply appending \Desktop\Shortcut.URL to this to create the destination name?

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objEnv = WshShell.Enviroment("Process")
Profile = objEnv("USERPROFILE")
 targetLocation = Profile & "\Desktop\Shortcut.url"

Something along those lines

 

by: midwest_rockerPosted on 2008-07-15 at 13:24:32ID: 22010710

I have tried the following with no luck; although the first code seemed to be the only one that did not kick back errors....

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktopFld = objShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
Set objURLShortcut = objShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktopFld & "shortcutname.url") ' Name for Shortcut to add
objURLShortcut.TargetPath = "http://website" ' Path for shortcut
objURLShortcut.Save
 
-----------------------------
 
On error resume next
dim objFSO, sourcelocation, targetlocation
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sourcelocation = "\\servername\Share\WebsiteAddress.url"
targetlocation = "%userprofile%\desktop"
objFSO.CopyFile sourcelocation, targetlocation, true
 
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Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objProcess = objShell.Environment("Process")
strDesktop = objProcess.Item ("\UserProfile") & "\Desktop\"
boolOverwrite = False
objFSO.CopyFile "\\servername\share\WebsiteAddress.url", strDesktop, boolOverwrite
 
 
----------------------------------
 
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
 
IF Not objFSO.FileExists(strDesktop & "\DesktopIconName.lnk") THEN
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\DesktopIconName.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "http://WebSiteAddress"
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.IconLocation = "SHELL32.dll, 18"
oShellLink.Description = "DesktopIconDescription"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "http://WebSiteAddress"
oShellLink.Save
set oShellLink = NOTHING
END IF
 
Set WshShell = NOTHING
Set objFSO = NOTHING

                                              
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by: RobSampsonPosted on 2008-07-15 at 14:39:28ID: 22011374

Hi, this should work to create a desktop shortcut.

Regards,

Rob.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%") & "\Desktop"
IF Not objFSO.FileExists(strDesktop & "\DesktopIconName.lnk") Then
	Set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\DesktopIconName.lnk")
	oShellLink.TargetPath = "http://WebSiteAddress"
	oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
	oShellLink.IconLocation = "SHELL32.dll, 18"
	oShellLink.Description = "DesktopIconDescription"
	oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "http://WebSiteAddress"
	oShellLink.Save
	Set oShellLink = NOTHING
END If
 
Set objShell = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing

                                              
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by: midwest_rockerPosted on 2008-07-15 at 16:11:46ID: 22011959

I get nothing after running this script... Wouldn't we have to use .URL instead of .lnk since these are pointing to a web address?

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2008-07-15 at 16:47:25ID: 22012140

No, that should work fine.....I just noticed the objShell variable should be called WshShell.....

This creates a shortcut on my desktop...

Regards,

Rob.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%") & "\Desktop"
IF Not objFSO.FileExists(strDesktop & "\DesktopIconName.lnk") Then
	Set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\DesktopIconName.lnk")
	oShellLink.TargetPath = "http://WebSiteAddress"
	oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
	oShellLink.IconLocation = "SHELL32.dll, 18"
	oShellLink.Description = "DesktopIconDescription"
	oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "http://WebSiteAddress"
	oShellLink.Save
	Set oShellLink = NOTHING
END If
 
Set objShell = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing

                                              
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by: WalkaboutTiggerPosted on 2008-07-15 at 20:08:39ID: 22013028

Worked for me, Rob.

Did it work for you, Rocker?

 

by: midwest_rockerPosted on 2008-07-16 at 04:48:00ID: 22014909

No - I actually get no result, not even an error. Are you also using roaming profiles?

 

by: midwest_rockerPosted on 2008-07-16 at 05:07:51ID: 22015024

Got it!
Just forgot to DIM oShellLink and the icon was created. thanks!

 

by: midwest_rockerPosted on 2008-07-16 at 05:09:16ID: 31476637

Had to make a few changes to the script to fit my network, but helped out ALOT - thank you so much!

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2008-07-16 at 16:02:48ID: 22020978

That's great. Thanks for the grade.

So it seems there were two possible reasons why this wasn't working for you originally.
1) You had Option Explicit on (and hence no declaration of oShellLink)
2) You also had On Error Resume Next in, which means you wouldn't get the error about oShellLink not being defined

So if you comment out On Error Resume Next you would get that error.  Then when you're finished testing, you could put that back in place...

Regards,

Rob.

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