Running .exe's with Run As in a .bat file

[Sledgehammer]

Ok chaps & chapesses,

I need some help with running .exe's in a normal .bat file.

We've recently got rid of all client Local Admin permissions on our Windows 2000 clients. However, I need to rollout a executable in the login scripts to install a new application. This used to be no problem as all domain users were menbers of the local admin group. This is no longer the case. So I need to know if any of you know the syntax for executing a .exe using an administrator userid and password.

My normal login script runs a .bat file which looks something like this:

start/wait \\server001\folder\setup.exe -s -f1\\server001\folder\answerfile.iss

How do I tell it to run this setup.exe under an admin userid?

Thanks

[meese]

Check out this thread: Using the "AT" command to run a batch file

[Sledgehammer]

Thanks meese. The Runas command prompts for a password, which is a problem as non of us wants to give out admin passwords to our users. But I found a way around that problem:

runas /user:domain\username \\server\folder\setup.exe | sanur password

The sanur command allows you to script in the password for the admin userid used in the runas command - pretty cool. Download the sanur.exe and place it in the same folder as the script. Check out http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur for more details.

Sledge

[muno]

If you find out, do tell me too.
Because normal case is that when you access a network drive, you do so by a domain user name, and if you try to run it with runas local administrator, you can't, because local accounts do not have rights to network files.

Like this:
domus, has rights to share, but not to computer
locadm, has no rights to share, but full to computer

Makes it pretty hard to runas local admin a network file doesn't it