[wplug] Exploder to Fire Fox

[Duncan Hutty]

Bill Moran wrote:

>Samba can be configured to have clients run a batch file on login.  This
>would be a file in the windows batch language (.bat)  I don't remember the
>Samba config option off the top of my head, but a quick search of the
>docs should turn it up.
>
>The windows batch language is pretty limited, but you should be able to
>get it to do what you need.  An alternative would be to install active
>Perl on each client machine, then make the scripts in perl.
>
>  
>
The limitations of batch files with regards to functionality and 
interaction with the OS environment have largely been removed since the 
days of IE3 with the introduction of windows scripting host. WSH exposes 
most COM objects to manipulation with VBscript or JavaScript. There are 
plenty of reasons not to like windows, but this one is largely 
fallacious. Having said that I admit that for me, it is easier to write 
bash scripts that only have to interact with files, than to learn all 
the windows objects. VBScript is not a complete language like perl, but 
there is still significant functionality that can be obtained using 
vbscript/WSH.

On another note: it is possible for samba to run a script on the server 
upon client login. Perl would (presumably) then be available to you. 
Would it be possible for the server's script to make the modifications 
to the client machine that you require?

Duncan Hutty