IFMEMBER causes problems w/Win9x clients

[JBruyet]

Hi,

I'm using IFMEMBER to map shares in my login script. This works really great with my XP clients, but causes problems with my Windows 98 clients (I'm running some proprietary software that won't work on 2k or XP & $120,000 to upgrade). When they login the script gets caught in a loop on the first IFMEMBER statement and needs to be manually terminated. Is there a tweak I can do to my Win98 clients so their login process doesn't hang?

Thanks,

Joe Brouillette

 

[NortonES2]

does it loop or just hang when the 98 machine tries to run ifmember?

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[JBruyet]

It looks like it's looped to me. Our login script creates a small box on the screen of about eight or nine lines, and everyone of those lines says "Bad command or file name". The rest of the script runs normally. Plus, clicking on the death x (upper right-hand corner of the window) kills the window.

Thanks,

Joe Brouillette

 

[NortonES2]

Have you copied the ifmember.exe file to the 98 machine, and if so is it in a directory specified in the path statement?

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[JBruyet]

Wow, now there was a brain wedgie! I deserve to be chained to a Mac for that!!! I now have IFMEMBER on the win98 computers but that brings up a new error:

"OpenProcessToken Failed. Error code returned by system was 120"

I've checked and 120 isn't a valid number on the 98 machines or the server. I tried checking the Microsoft support site for the 120 and the OpenProcessToken but that was fruitless. Any other ideas???

Thanks,

Joe Brouillette

 

[NortonES2]

Only that ifmember.exe isn't supported on 9x machines.

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[wbg34]

You would need to use kixtart

http://www.kixtart.org/

or a similar product to get that functionality on win9x machines.

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Bill.

 

[JBruyet]

Sooooooo.... Is there a way to select an OS type to determine which section of login script will run on the workstations? I would need to have one section for IFMEMBER and one section for KIXTART.

Thanks,

Joe Brouillette