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VBS Login Script with HTA
Posted on 2013-01-02
Sorry for asking a dumb question, but I've been trying to get this working all day and, whilst there are lots of ways that don't work the way I want it to, I know that there must be a simple way of getting it to work. Surely!
All I want (and why is it that the simplest requests cause so much trouble?) is a basic Logon script that brings up a HTA window (without a title bar, cos some moron will only close it down otherwise!) that says hello (by name and computer) lists what the script is doing, maps a handful of basic drives (one is individual to each User), and closes down.
The HTA would look like this (use your imagination! :) )
Hello, [Username]
You are connected to [Computer Name]
Mapping Network Drives. Please wait...
Mapping G: to [Shared Drive]
Mapping H: to [Individual User Folder]
Checking any additional network drives (based on AD Groups)
Logon complete.
Any help? Please?
All I want (and why is it that the simplest requests cause so much trouble?) is a basic Logon script that brings up a HTA window (without a title bar, cos some moron will only close it down otherwise!) that says hello (by name and computer) lists what the script is doing, maps a handful of basic drives (one is individual to each User), and closes down.
The HTA would look like this (use your imagination! :) )
Hello, [Username]
You are connected to [Computer Name]
Mapping Network Drives. Please wait...
Mapping G: to [Shared Drive]
Mapping H: to [Individual User Folder]
Checking any additional network drives (based on AD Groups)
Logon complete.
Any help? Please?
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Hi, here's a starting example....you can add more drives in the Window_OnLoad procedure.
Regards,
Rob.
Regards,
Rob.
<head>
<title>Login Script</title>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME="Login Script"
BORDER="dialog"
SCROLL="no"
SHOWINTASKBAR="no"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
SYSMENU="no"
WINDOWSTATE="normal"
>
</head>
<script language="VBScript">
Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20
Dim iTimerID
Sub Window_OnLoad
intWidth = 800
intHeight = 650
Me.ResizeTo intWidth, intHeight
Me.MoveTo ((Screen.Width / 2) - (intWidth / 2)),((Screen.Height / 2) - (intHeight / 2))
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set objADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & objADSysInfo.UserName)
ShowOutput "<br>Hello " & objUser.DisplayName
ShowOutput "<br>You are logged onto " & objNetwork.ComputerName
ShowOutput "<br><br>Please wait while your drives are mapped..."
MapDrive "G:", "\\server\share"
HTASleep 1
MapDrive "H:", "\\server\share2"
HTASleep 1
ShowOutput "<br><br>Script complete"
HTASleep 3
iTimerID = window.setInterval("CloseWindow", 3000)
End Sub
Sub CloseWindow
HTASleep 1
window.close
End Sub
Sub ShowOutput(strMessage)
txt_policy.innerHTML = txt_policy.innerHTML & strMessage
End Sub
Sub MapDrive(strDriveLetter, strDrivePath)
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
ShowOutput "<br>Mapping " & strDriveLetter & " to " & strDrivePath & "....."
On Error Resume Next
If objFSO.DriveExists(strDriveLetter) = True Then objNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive strDriveLetter, True, True
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter, strDrivePath, True
If Err.Number = 0 Then
ShowOutput "<font color='green'>Success</font>"
Else
ShowOutput "<font color='red'>Failed</font>"
End If
Err.Clear
On Error GoTo 0
End Sub
Sub HTASleep(intSeconds)
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "ping 127.0.0.1 -n " & intSeconds + 1, 0, True
End Sub
</script>
<body>
<table align="center" width="100%" border="0">
<tr valign="center" align="center">
<td colspan="2" valign="center" align="center" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><h2>Login Script</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="center" align="center">
<td colspan="2" valign="center" align="center"><span id="txt_policy"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
Thank you, Rob,
There is only one issue that I have found so far; I cannot manage to get a drive mapping to \\server\users\{individual
I have tried: %username%, objUser and UserName, all without success.
Otherwise, this is precisely the kind of thing that I was looking for!
There is only one issue that I have found so far; I cannot manage to get a drive mapping to \\server\users\{individual
I have tried: %username%, objUser and UserName, all without success.
Otherwise, this is precisely the kind of thing that I was looking for!
That's it! I obviously didn't put that in correctly! So that's more down to my poor spelling!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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