Scipt to prompt and authenticate users to AD and then map 2 next available drive letters to 2 network shares

Hi,
So I have been trying to write some code that will
prompt users to authenticate to AD and use that authentication to map the next 2 available drive letter to two network shares.
I have adopted using the HAT format as this provides me with the ability to prompt for a username and password and authenitcate to AD.
<script language="vbscript">
Function setSize()
window.resizeTo 350,300
Window.moveTo (screen.width-240)/2, (screen.height-600)/2
End Function
Function cmdSubmit_OnClick()
Dim strUser 'User Name variable
Dim strPW 'User Password variable
if auth.username.value = "" Then
msgbox ("ERROR: No User account information provided. Please Try Again!")
cmdSubmit_OnClick = False
Elseif auth.password.value = "" Then
msgbox ("ERROR: No User account information provided. Please Try Again!")
cmdSubmit_OnClick= False
Else
strUser = auth.username.value
strPW = auth.password.value
Authenticate strUser, strPW
End If
End Function
Public Sub Authenticate (Byref strUser, Byref strPW)
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION = &H1
Const ADS_SERVER_BIND = &H200
Dim strPath 'LDAP path where the Users accounts are listed
Dim LDAP 'Directory Service Object reference variable
Dim strAuth 'Parses the User Name and Password through the DSObject
strPath = "LDAP://fanzldap.au.fjanz.com/rootDSE"
Set LDAP = GetObject("LDAP://company/rootDSE")
Set strAuth = LDAP.OpenDSObject(strPath, strUser, strPW, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION Or ADS_SERVER_BIND)
If Err.number <> 0 Then
intTemp = msgbox(strUser & " could not be authenticated", vbYES)
if intTemp = vbYes Then
'window.location.reload()
End If
Else
For Each obj in strAuth
If obj.Class = "user" Then
If obj.Get("samAccountName") = strUser Then
msgbox ("Success! " & strUser & " has been authenticated with Active Directory")
window.close()
Set wShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
wShell.run "Firstletterali.vbs"
End If
End If
Next
End If
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<head>
<body style="background-color:#B0C4DE">
<img src=Title.jpg><br>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME="User Login"
BORDER="thin"
SCROLL="no"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
WINDOWSTATE="normal">
<title>NAS Authentication</title>
<body onload="vbs:setSize()">
<div class="style2">
<h3>NAS Archive Authentication</h3>
</div>
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<span class="style3"><strong>User Name:  </strong></span>
<input id="Username" name="Username" type="text" style="width: 150px" /><br>
<span class="style3">
<strong>Password:     </strong></span>
<input id="password" name="password" type="password" style="width: 150px" /><br><br>
      
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="cmdSubmit" />
<input type="button" value="Exit" onclick="self.close()">
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using the above I can succefully authenticate users but I cant work out how to then use that authenticattion to map the next to available drive letters to a network source.
The code I have for that is
Option Explicit
Dim strDriveLetter, strRemotePath, strRemotePath1, strDriveLetter1
Dim objNetwork, objShell
Dim CheckDrive, DriveExists, intDrive
Dim strAlpha, strExtract, intAlpha, intCount
' The section sets the variables
strRemotePath = "\\mel\groups\Team\general"
strRemotePath1 = "\\mel\groups\Team\specific"
strDriveLetter = "B:"
strDriveLetter1 = "H:"
strAlpha = "BHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
intAlpha = 0
intCount = 0
err.number= vbEmpty
' This sections creates two objects:
' objShell and objNetwork and then counts the drives
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set CheckDrive = objNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives()
' This section operates the For ... Next loop
' See how it compares the enumerated drive letters
' With strDriveLetter
On Error Resume Next
DriveExists = False
' Sets the Outer loop to check for 24 letters in strAlpha
For intCount = 1 To 24
DriveExists = False
' CheckDrive compares each Enumerated network drive
' with the proposed drive letter held by strDriveLetter
For intDrive = 0 To CheckDrive.Count - 1 Step 2
If CheckDrive.Item(intDrive) = strDriveLetter _
Then DriveExists = True
Next
intAlpha = intAlpha + 1
' Logic section if strDriveLetter does not = DriveExist
' Then go ahead and map the drive
'Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " exists: " & DriveExists
If DriveExists = False Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
strDriveLetter, strRemotePath
call ShowExplorer ' Extra code to take you to the mapped drive
' Appends a colon to drive letter. 1 means number of letters
strDriveLetter = Mid(strAlpha, intAlpha,1) & ":"
' If the DriveExists, then it is necessary to
' reset the variable from true --> false for next test loop
If DriveExists = True Then DriveExists = False
Next
WScript.Echo "Out of drive letters. Last letter " & strDriveLetter
WScript.Quit(1)
'Sub ShowExplorer()
'If DriveExists = False Then Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " Has been mapped for archiving"
'If DriveExists = False Then objShell.run _
'("Explorer" & " " & strDriveLetter & "\" )
'If DriveExists = False Then WScript.Quit(0)
'End Sub
On Error Resume Next
DriveExists = False
' Sets the Outer loop to check for 24 letters in strAlpha
For intCount = 1 To 24
DriveExists = False
' CheckDrive compares each Enumerated network drive
' with the proposed drive letter held by strDriveLetter1
For intDrive = 0 To CheckDrive.Count - 1 Step 2
If CheckDrive.Item(intDrive) = strDriveLetter1 _
Then DriveExists = True
Next
intAlpha = intAlpha + 1
' Logic section if strDriveLetter1 does not = DriveExist
' Then go ahead and map the drive
'Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter1 & " exists: " & DriveExists
If DriveExists = False Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
strDriveLetter1, strRemotePath1
call ShowExplorer ' Extra code to take you to the mapped drive
' Appends a colon to drive letter. 1 means number of letters
strDriveLetter1 = Mid(strAlpha, intAlpha,1) & ":"
' If the DriveExists, then it is necessary to
' reset the variable from true --> false for next test loop
If DriveExists = True Then DriveExists = False
Next
WScript.Echo "Out of drive letters. Last letter " & strDriveLetter1
WScript.Quit(1)
Sub ShowExplorer()
If DriveExists = False Then Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " Has been mapped for archiving"
If DriveExists = False Then objShell.run _
("Explorer" & " " & strDriveLetter & "\" )
If DriveExists = False Then WScript.Quit(0)
End Sub
Now the above script will find the next availabe letter and map one location to it...I still havent worked out to create another loop for it to do it again. It obviously also requires that you already be authenticated to map to that location.
I looking for some help on how to marry these to scripts together.
Thanks
Ali

Hi Ali
Here is some code that will enumerate two free adjacent drive letters. It starts searching from "C" all the way to "Z" for two drives letters that are adjacent and returns the results in an array then echos the results. You can easily adapt this code to
map your network drives to each drive letter. Hope that helps
Cheers Matt :)
Option Explicit
Dim objFSO
On Error Resume Next
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ProcessScript
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Quit
End If
On Error Goto 0
'Functions Processing Section
'Name : ProcessScript -> Primary Function that controls all other script processing.
'Parameters : None ->
'Return : None ->
Function ProcessScript
Dim driveLetters, driveLetter
If Not GetFreeDrives(driveLetters) Then
Exit Function
End If
For Each driveLetter In driveLetters
MsgBox driveLetter, vbInformation
Next
End Function
'Name : GetFreeDrives -> Searches for a pair of free adjacent drive letters.
'Parameters : adjacentDrives -> Input/Output : variable assigned to an array containing the first two free adjacent drives.
'Return : GetFreeDrives -> Returns True if Successful otherwise returns False.
Function GetFreeDrives(adjacentDrives)
GetFreeDrives = False
Dim drive, driveLetter, drivesDict, i
Set drivesDict = NewDictionary
driveLetter = "C"
'Add the drives collection into the dictionary.
For Each drive In objFSO.drives
drivesDict(drive.DriveLetter) = ""
Next
'Check drive letters C: to Z: for two free adjacent drive letters and set the "driveLetter" variable to the first one.
For i = Asc(driveLetter) To Asc("Z")
If Not drivesDict.Exists(Chr(i)) And Not drivesDict.Exists(Chr(i + 1)) Then
driveLetter = Chr(i)
Exit For
End If
Next
'If two free adjacent drive letters were not found then exit.
If driveLetter = "" Then
Exit Function
End If
adjacentDrives = Array(driveLetter, Chr(Asc(driveLetter) + 1))
GetFreeDrives = True
End Function
'Name : NewDictionary -> Creates a new dictionary object.
'Parameters : None ->
'Return : NewDictionary -> Returns a dictionary object.
Function NewDictionary
Dim dict
Set dict = CreateObject("scripting.Dictionary")
dict.CompareMode = vbTextCompare
Set NewDictionary = dict
End Function

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on the files and copy them, then Right Click->Paste onto the drive, they remain. (The keyboard shortcuts also worked.) Also, 3rd party disc burning utilities function they way the should. (In other words, they don't delete the files.)
My speculation is that there's a bug in the coding that sees the network share as a temporary buffer file while the image is being prepared. Then, as the files are processed in what ever way is needed, the "temporary buffer" is being deleted. The result:
lost files on a network share. But, this is just speculation.

Home network and FTP giving diffrent drive letters

I have my iTunes library on a home server and I have it synced to that drive letter (i.e. X:). When I am remote, which is often in my job, I ftp in and get a different drive letter (i.e. T:). When I attempt to do anything it is telling me it can’t the file. But, when I try to use the T: drive it wants to erase and re-sync to that drive. These drives are mapped and cannot have the same letter. Is there a way around this? I am more familiar with Microsoft Zune software, which you can sync from several drives and it only will sync what is different.

Hi, Bill...
I'm using PowerShell to query a database and then write the results to a shared network folder on a Linux server which is mapped to a drive letter. I'm using the ISE... (I *love* the ISE), and it just would be a lot easier if had those
mapped drives available. I'm thinking that the workaround is to execute test-path to test whether the path is usable. If the test-path returns false, then map a temporary drive. But it seems like a bit of a kludge, and I wasn't sure if there was
some best practice that I was missing.
I'm also curious to know why the drives are visible, but inaccessible, in the ISE.
Does the ISE actually create a separate environment different from, or "on top of" the normal PS command line environment?
And, why doesn't the ISE session inherit the mapped drives?
--- L

DAC server start-up error and Can't authenticate user

HI,
we have installed DAC server in Linux machine and client on windows. By using DAC client we restored the backup of DAC repository, DAC client was working fine still restoration and after restoring it’s not logging in. It throws error like "Can't authenticate user"
while starting DAC services in Unix server it throws an error like
ANOMALY INFO An exception occurred. Shutting down server...
MESSAGE:::/u01/DAC/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
EXCEPTION CLASS::: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError
Note: since DAC client is not separately available for windows we have installed dac server also and while installing and after installing we never configured to connect to the dac server which is in Linux, we have configured only DB.
we have successfully installed OBIEE, Informatica, and DAC version is 10.1.3.4.1.
How to start the DAC services?
How to configure dac client to connect to DAC server and how to solve this "Can't authenticate user" issue?
Pls help in this regard.
Thanks in advance.

EddyLau wrote:
Hi,
I encounter the "Can't authenticate user" error in DAC first setup after installation when it prompt up to ask for setting up administrator id and password.
here's my sql statement to create database schema for dac in oracle database.
grant dba, connect, resource, create view, create session to SSE_ROLE;
create user DEV_DAC identified by "password";
grant DEV_DAC to SSE_ROLE;
grant dba, connect, resource, create view, create session, grant any role to DEV_DAC;
I tried dropping the data schema and create it again but still fail to authenticate.
did I grant enough privileges to the database schema?
Please help.
Thanks,
EddyLogin to DEV_DAC using the credentials from SQL Developer or sql
Then do select * from W_ETL_USER -- here you will see 2 Administrator id's listed
now run the command Delete From W_ETL_USER
Now login to dac client with Administrator and pwd which you have set earlier.
Mark as helpful or correct if it helps
Thanks,
RM

How to authenticate external and internal users on different AD

What is the recommended way to authenticate external users as well as internal employees in a customer facing application?
We have external users in an Active Directory in the DMZ and our employees in our internal DMZ. Unfortunately we don't have an identity management system in place and wondering if there is a way we could authenticate user against two active directories without creating a trust between them.
We are implementing EP7.0
Thanks in Advance.

You can also use user partitioning. A feature of the UME which allows for having different user persistence options for different users. What you could do in this case have the external user stored in the local db or an LDAP for the external users and the internal users stored in an internal LDAP directory. For more details about <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/e0/b60b404b2b1e07e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm">user partitioning</a>, please see the docs.
regards,
Patrick

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