ARD Login Script Problem

Hey there.
I have a Mac lab that I am controlling with ARD. I know you can use the following UNIX script to login..
osascript <<EndOfMyScript
          tell application "System Events"
                    keystroke "USERNAME"
                    keystroke tab
                    delay 0.5
                    keystroke "PASSWORD"
                    delay 0.5
                    keystroke return
          end tell
EndOfMyScript
... However, my problem is that, for various reasons, the logins are set to choose from a list of accounts, not to enter the username. In other words, after the machine boots up, the user chooses the name of the account and then is prompted for the password.
Can this script be modified to select a user or is there another way to script it?
Thanks in advance.
Adam

> "Andrew Knoke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:typvh.9628$[email protected]..
>
> Also is there a way you can say in a login script to have users in a group
> NOT get a map drive. In my example users in group would not get the H:
> drive.
>
>
> map root u:=%HOME_DIRECTORY
>
> If member of "small group.home" Then
> goto five
> end
>
> map root h:=sever\vol1:shared
>
> :five
If not member of ".smallgroup.home" then
map root h:=sever\vol1:shared
End
AZC

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On Error resume next
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This is wierd, but reproduceable. I'm running NCL 2 here
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David Gersic dgersic_@_niu.edu
I'm tired of receiving rubbish in my mailbox, so the E-mail address is
munged to foil the junkmail bots. Humans will figure it out on their own.

>>> On November 15, 2007 at 4:16 PM, in message
<tz3%i.290$[email protected]>, Rick
Bousquet<[email protected]> wrote:
> David Gersic wrote:
>
>> This is wierd, but reproduceable. I'm running NCL 2 here
>> (Novell_Client_10.2-i386-2007913-CD1.iso) on OpenSuSE 10.2 and have
>> found that it only processes the login script correctly the second time
>> I log in.
>>
>> On the first log in, I get:
>>
>> http://www.staff.niu.edu/~a02dag1/pu...-Results-1.png
>>
>> If I then log in again, I get:
>>
>> http://www.staff.niu.edu/~a02dag1/pu...-Results-2.png
>>
>> After that, subsequent log in attempts all work fine. It's just the
>> first one that doesn't.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Gersic
dgersic_@_niu.edu
>>
>> I'm tired of receiving rubbish in my mailbox, so the E-mail address is
>> munged to foil the junkmail bots. Humans will figure it out on their
own.
>
>
> seeing same here. I wish they had feedback during public beta. I would
have
> reported it.
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=======================================
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========================================
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Originally Posted by preemeyer
Goodday,
We are running DSfW for almost a year and we never had to make a new OU but that time has come.
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Originally Posted by preemeyer
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> Oksana wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> i have the novell client for linux on nld. i can't seem to get the login
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>
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>
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In the future, please post your Code Snippits between
... your code here ...
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And it will make it easy for people to see what you really wrote as your script.
PS. Why not just use the quota command?
Message was edited by: BobHarris

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