run as administrator

[bookouri]

I want to use my logon script to automatically run an exe that must have admin rights to execute. I keep finding situations where I need to run update scripts on all the domain workstations and they always have to be run with admin rights. I could use the run as on a shortcut or whatever, but all the references I find to run as or the runas command indicate that there is no way for it to run without the local user entering at least the password. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[meireles]

Please, take a look here. It's a similar problem than yours.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinNT/Q_20709878.html

Paulo Meireles

 

[bookouri]

thanks Ill take a look at that.

 

[bookouri]

I still havnt been able to get anything to work. Ive tried scripting the runas.exe but just cant get it to work for me. There is a sysinternals utility to run an application remotely on a workstation, but I can only manage to get that to work from command line and I really need to apply these patches to a couple of hundred workstations.

If anyone has any other ideas I would appreciate them. Im running a mix of win2k pro and XPpro with Win2k Servers in one AD forest. Im almost sure there is some way in AD to accomplish something as simple as this must be.

thanks again for any suggestions..

 

[NoWittyName]

I recently tried to use the runas to install some patches, I found that it only works if the file you are running is located on the C:\ drive of the computer you are running it on. I got round this by copying the file to the C:\ drive before I ran it.

 

[bookouri]

Ill take a look at that, nothing else has worked, but sometimes weird anomolies like that is what it takes.

thanks