snapin and batch script

[Tom Elliott]

@Avaryan Slight correction, as the drive being mounted is “system wide” it will “appear” as the drive letter being mounted, but the credentials are not available to any user but the one who established the mount.

[plegrand]

@Tom-Elliott OK i understand
Then no solution ?

[Tom Elliott]

@plegrand So if you mount the drive, and in the same script run the action needed, things should work. You wouldn’t be able to make the mount->use another user to perform the action->then unmount.

[Avaryan]

@plegrand said in snapin and batch script:

@Avaryan it’s for use WsusOffline which is installed on a samba share \samba\wsus
then i need to mount the wsus share , launch a command (wsus command) dnd then umount share.

Ok. That should be possible since the local users don’t need to access the mount. Should be pretty easy in PowerShell. I don’t know how to do it other ways, lol.

$Username = "Domain\User"
$Password = "Password" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $Username, $Password
# Add share.
New-PSDrive -Name "MyShare" -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\ShareName\ -Credential $Credential

# Do something...
# More somethings...

Remove-PSDrive -Name "MyShare"

[plegrand]

@Tom-Elliott Here is what i need to do and which doesn’ works :

net use * /delete /y >> %tmp%\Update_Windows7.log 2>&1
net use z: \\samba\wsus$ "my'password" /user:samba\administrateur >> %tmp%\Update_Windows7.log 2>&1
z:\wsusoffline\client\UpdateInstaller.exe >> %tmp%\Update_Windows7.log 2>&1
net use /delete * /y >> %tmp%\Update_Windows7.log 2>&1

UpdateInstaller.exe isn’t launched

[plegrand]

@Avaryan As you can see , i need to mount the share and execute a command which is inside this share…
Then i thin it’s not possible ?

[Avaryan]

@plegrand said in snapin and batch script:

@Avaryan As you can see , i need to mount the share and execute a command which is inside this share…
Then i thin it’s not possible ?

Should be possible.

$Username = "samba\administrator"
$Password = "my'password" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $Username, $Password

New-PSDrive -Name "Samba" -PSProvider FileSystem -Root '\\samba\wsus$' -Credential $Credential
$UpdateInstaller = Get-ChildItem -Path "Samba:\wsusoffline\client\" | Where-Object -Property Name -EQ "UpdateInstaller.exe"
Start-Process -FilePath $UpdateInstaller.FullName -Wait
Remove-PSDrive -Name "Samba"

Depending on how large the UpdateInstaller.exe is and how many devices you are doing at once, it might be better to have this copy it over and run locally.

[Tom Elliott]

@plegrand Does the UpdateInstaller.exe require User input?

[plegrand]

@Avaryan then i use your ps script as a powershell template into snapin ?
thanks i try

[Tom Elliott]

@plegrand I still doubt if that will work. If UpdateInstaller.exe requires user input, the script won’t run (or will be stuck running forever).

[plegrand]

@Tom-Elliott i’m testing the ps script, but i cant understand why it could works better than a batch script which make the same thing

[plegrand]

@Avaryan it doesn’ works, the share is not mounted at all

[Tom Elliott]

@plegrand I’m asking if UpdateInstaller.exe (as you’re running it) expects user input?

[plegrand]

@Tom-Elliott In fact i will not use “UpdateInstaller.exe” IRl. I will use a command line with arguments like that :

"call W:\cmd\DoUpdate.cmd /verify /updatecpp /updatetsc /instdotnet4 /autoreboot"

But this command doesnt open a window then for my test i cant see if the command is well launched or not.

But for the moment my problem is : how mount a samba share with snapin which is usable by administrator user

[Tom Elliott]

@plegrand You can’t. Not with snapins in that sense. It will be mounted by the SYSTEM user only as that’s how snapins run.

[Avaryan]

@plegrand said in snapin and batch script:

But for the moment my problem is : how mount a samba share with snapin which is usable by administrator user

What version of Windows would this Snapin be run on?

[plegrand]

@Tom-Elliott may be with psexec tool ?
For the moment i cant make it works syntax problem but with snapin pack ?

[plegrand]

@Avaryan Windows 7 and Windows 10

[Tom Elliott]

@plegrand I am pretty sure, no amount of tries (with or without) snapin pack, snapin plain, psexec, powershell, batch, vbscript, or any thing else will get this working for you.

The first step would be to find out if the command is actually needing user input. Snapins cannot operate with the user environment.

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott said in snapin and batch script:

Essentially, the reason why the “red x” happens is because System user is who mounted the point, and the permissions are not available to the user you’re actually logged in under. If you need a “global” mount of a drive, this would be more readily handled using GPO’s, not fog snapins. While I’m sure it “could” be handled via a snapin, i think such a thing is out of scope for the FOG Client.

This is correct, use Group Policy to do this. Either in a startup script or a login script. That’s how I’ve always accomplished it.
Additionally, you don’t even need to script it because Group Policy has native functionality for mapping & mounting remote volumes.