[NTLUG:Discuss] Getting Linux and NT to play nice.

[Merlin]

Quoting Kelledin <kelledin+NTLUG at skarpsey.dyndns.org>:

> On Friday 18 April 2003 05:10 am, Stephen Klein wrote:
> > My question is, does anyone know of a way to get WinNT 4 to
> > connect to a SAMBA share automatically from a reboot without
> > someone logging in first.
> 
> Hmmm...I'm a little rusty on this.  Somewhere in the registry, 
> deep under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, is a subkey called "Run".  I used 
> to know exactly where that was in the registry hierarchy (would 
> probably still know if I worked with windows more), but I do 
> remember that there's a "RunOnce" subkey right next to it.  Just 
> do a registry search for "RunOnce" and it should get you there.

Actually, the RUN key is only executed on interactive login.  There is, 
however, a RunService or RunServices key that is executed on boot, and not 
interactive login.

> 
> Stick an arbitrarily-named value in that subkey, with the data 
> being the path to some command, and IIRC that command will get 
> run on every boot, whether someone logs in or not.
> 
> Once you've done that, the next thing is to create a batch file 
> that runs the necessary "net" commands to map the share to a 
> drive letter, then runs your backup operation and unmaps the 
> share before exiting.  Then just stick the path to that batch 
> file in the "Run" subkey...
> 
> Too bad I never learned much about the Windows "net" command line 
> tool. :(

As long as the share does not require user validation, you can issue the NET 
command.  The syntax would be:

NET USE J: \\server\share

Obviously, substitute whatever drive letter you want for J:

-- 
Merlin
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