Re: Disable/enable file and print sharing with group policy

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pepe wrote:

Can someone please help me find the object in group policy that i can use to
disable/enable file and print sharing. When we installed all of our
workstations, we did so with file and print sharing disabled. Now, we would
like to push an antivirus client install and it needs file and print sharing
enabled. After the install, we will disable it again.

Hi,

There is nothing in group policy that can help you here.

You might get something to work with snetcfg.exe.

If you want to use Snetcfg.exe to _enable_ File & Print Sharing (F&PS
already installed, but the checkbox is not checked), you will have to
uninstall F&PS first, and then install again (using snetcfg.exe for
both tasks). This will make the checkbox checked.

Also note that uninstalling F&PS will remove the server service.

I suggest you use a computer startup script (with a GPO) that runs as
part of the boot up process (before the user logs in). It runs under
the system context and has admin rights.

To be able to access files over the network from the computer startup
script, you could put the file(s) on a network share and grant read
access for the AD group "Domain Computers" to the share.

Alternatively, from the startup script, you could map a drive on
the fly, like this:

sDomainUser = "arp.corp\computer_fix"
sPswd = "something"

Set oNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")

oNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
    "Y:", "\\server\netlogon\some folder",, sDomainUser, sPswd


More about snetcfg.exe and F&PS here:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript/msg/bc2ef5a6df39fdad?dmode=source


Also, it looks like you can combine parsing the output from
nbtstat.exe -n and checking the server service existence to obtain
current status:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.scripting.wsh/msg/7709954edf163021?hl=en



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