Re: Change permission remotely

1. They are in different subnet
2. They are XP professional and W2K severs. Only XP professional needs to
change permission on temp folder.

Thanks in advance

"James Whitlow" <jwhitlow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sam Chan" <schan17@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>> I would like to change security permission for everyone from "no access"
> to
>> "read only" on each temp folder. I have about 200 computers to reset. Is
> it
>> a way to do it by VBscript?
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> ** Are all of the computers inside the same subnet (or can a single CIDR
> encompass them)
> ** If yes to the above, are all of the computers within the range to be
> updated or just some of them?
> ** Should server(s) be excluded from the script?
> ** Are all of the computers to be updated NT based (NT, 2K, XP) or are
> there
> some 9X machines?
>
> When I need to do something to all of the computers in an office, I
> generally walk the subnet by IP address. I use a small routine to create a
> dictionary object of IP addresses from a given CIDR. I then loop through
> the
> IP addresses in the dictionary, checking to see if the IP address pings.
> If
> it does, I then check for whatever criteria I want (is it a workstation or
> server, does 'somefile.txt' exist, etc).
>
> Answer the questions above and I will see if I can post an example that
> you could easily customize for your needs. Feel free to include any
> additional information you think relevant.
>
>


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