Anyways, I want the Windows XP users to mostly be in a limited user mode when on the domain, so they can't randomly install silly little games chock-full of spyware and other such things, unlike in Windows 98 where they always have Administrator access to their machine, even when logged in on the network.
However, clever use of the login.bat, as bad as it was to do it, was used to run things with administrator level privileges under Windows 98, such as installing certain updates or programs automatically, removing certain common spyware programs, copying useful utilities such as putty, gnugrep and vncviewer to a system directory for purposes of running from the $PATH, regedit'ing registry keys, etc. The login.bat under Windows XP, however, runs with user level privileges, which is in limited mode, meaning there's only so much I can do with it.
So, the question is, is there any way to run a logon script that has local Administrator privileges while running on a Windows XP machine joined to the samba domain in limited mode?
I've googled for some time and I hope I haven't missed anything, but I have yet to find anything that allows a logon script with anything but user-level (limited mode under XP) privileges, though I have heard some remote mentioning of it. It would be quite a nice thing to have, especially with the growth of our organization, so I could do more to each machine by remote without having to go through the ordeal of running a Windows Server, which is mostly out of the question as far as I'm concerned. Any suggestions for solutions would be much appreciated.
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