I'm fairly new to VB Scripting and am just seeing how far I can push it.
I've created a script that will help my co-workers and I update the IP
information on about 1500 computers in our corporation.
To make the automation fully complete, we'd like to add it to run in the
Novell Login script that runs when each user logs in.
The problem is the user won't have admin rights to make the necessary
updates. I'm looking for suggestions on ways to get around this. I've
thought of a couple ways, and have done some research into it...but not
found a solid solution to make this work. We're hoping to make it a free
solution as well.
The best way I can think of is to use a 3rd Party (freeware) "Run As
Different User" (that's a scriptable version of the Microsoft "RunAs" -
The problem with this is the program can't see the network drive that
the Script is Mounted on (because its mounted as "Limited User", and the
script is running as an "Admin User") I have yet to figure out the
work-around for this. Other drawbacks to this is the admin password is
out there in an (encrypted) file... its not a big worry for us, but it
is a vulnerability.
Any suggestions, inputs, or criticisms would be appreciated.
Thank-you,
Eric Heaton
New Media Designer