This particular application is to synchronize Counterstrike maps between machines, basically just copy a filesystem folder to every system.
Can't find anything in Group Policy that would allow me to do it (unless I went through the arduous process of making an MSI every week or so, and since Counterstrike is NOT our primary task, I'd prefer not to waste time on that when I should be streamlining and debugging our other, more important functions)
The reason behind doing this is that our normal user accounts do not have the NTFS permissions to write to the Steam directory (which is desired in our situation, because we've had issues in the past).
I tried using the SysInternals PSEXEC util to xcopy from a network share to every machine, but it just so happens that only the machine I initially did my testing on will xcopy from an unmounted network share. The rest whine about invalid arguments (this is REALLY odd, since they're all WinXP Pro SP2, and theoretically, should have the same version of xcopy, unless the administration tools updated xcopy)
I suppose I could mount drives through psexec and then perform the xcopy, but as I was contemplating doing that, I decided that there must be a better way.
Thoughts?
Can't find anything in Group Policy that would allow me to do it (unless I went through the arduous process of making an MSI every week or so, and since Counterstrike is NOT our primary task, I'd prefer not to waste time on that when I should be streamlining and debugging our other, more important functions)
The reason behind doing this is that our normal user accounts do not have the NTFS permissions to write to the Steam directory (which is desired in our situation, because we've had issues in the past).
I tried using the SysInternals PSEXEC util to xcopy from a network share to every machine, but it just so happens that only the machine I initially did my testing on will xcopy from an unmounted network share. The rest whine about invalid arguments (this is REALLY odd, since they're all WinXP Pro SP2, and theoretically, should have the same version of xcopy, unless the administration tools updated xcopy)
I suppose I could mount drives through psexec and then perform the xcopy, but as I was contemplating doing that, I decided that there must be a better way.
Thoughts?
