[VBScript/Logon Scripts] Enable network connection

[jonovate]

Anyone got any clue what the VBScript would be to enable and disable a Network Connection (ie: LAN1) in XP Pro ? I need to have a network connection disabled until user authenticates with domain, then i can renable it. Then on logoff, it has to disable itself again.

(Right now when the network connection is enabled when the user logs on, it tries to authenticate with the connection I need disabled and the roaming profiles get all garbled up).

Thanks.

I found DevCon, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...B;EN-US;Q311272, but It'd be easier if I could make it as a script as the Hardware ID wont be the same on each computer.

[Aaron P]

How do you authenticate to the domain without a network connection?

I used DEVCON recently to disable a network connection like this:

DEVCON DISABLE @PCI\VEN_14E4*10

This disables the second network card in an IBM 335 server, in which the PCI id is the same on each box. The * represents any item between PCI\VEN_14E4 and 10, so it will match a hardware id that matches that pattern.

Edited November 30, 2004 by agenta

[jonovate]

Right now, we need the primary connecftion to be connected to the domain. The secondary connection (one needed in the script), is inteferring with the domain authentication and hence cant be enabled until user logs on.

I was looking into Devcon, but I was hoping there was a way I can do it via policies. The enable part wouldnt be too hard, but I just have to figure out how to get it to disable on logoff (which I havent thought too hard about yet; as i was hoping I could do it with a script).

The only other thing is this has to be applied to 2 computers, which I think the NIC's are different. (Which is why i was trying to avoid using devcon).