[Sussex] Active Directory, Logon Scripts and Linux

[Nicholas Butler]

Hi Matthew well most of this is straight forward enough but i thought 
Iwould answer the below.
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> This is basically what our current logon script does for the windows 
> boxes - here come the questions:
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> 1) Can I do this in BASH, or is there an alternative "preferred" 
> method?[1]
Not really , BASH in this case is ideal since your can do for more 
flexible manipulation of the command environment, its what scripting 
languages are for.
> 2) If I were to use PHP (coz it's what I know!) - using system calls 
> to map drives/add to groups etc - would this pose a serious risk?
not much but it would probably pose a headache if the 
apache/php/environment was moved , updated.  where as 1 has better longevity
> 3) Are there any tutorials out there that people know of on how to do 
> this already?[2]
Loads. but first stop are you on the samba-maillist ?

https://lists.samba.org/mailman/

also heres some links from my own lookups


http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/network/0,39044847,39081966-39000223c-1,00.htm
http://www.wlug.org.nz/ActiveDirectorySamba
http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic72678.html

Uhm thats it for now


Nik