My Unix box has a mapping to a Windows share. On the Windows server, a Powershell script is copying folders to this share UDI/inbound throughout the day. On the Unix side where my Oracle database is running, I need to be able to update or write a file under one of these share folders. But permissions are blocking me. See visual below.
When looking at it from the Unix side, the owner/group(33448/32770) are different than my Unix login (orahubd/dba), so I cannot change the permissions from the Unix side. Is there some way from the Windows side, like in my Powershell script, to change the permissions so that Unix would allow me to write? I was able to set the permissions via Powershell to Everyone:Full, but that doesn't seem to change it from the Unix perspective.
I am an Oracle PL//SQL developer, just a novice dabbling in these other technologies.
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I want to be able to push a new group policy out with a powershell script (or scripts most likely) that will make all computers on our active domain update to the windows OS that we want. Currently there are hundreds of users and we don't have a way to update their computers other than doing it via remote desktop for each computer individually. But every computer has the .exe file required to update, just hasn't been run yet. Something like
wuauclt.exe /updatenow
I am also open to other suggestion on how to do this. I was thinking of sending all the users a batch file and having them run that and they could do it themselves. Any help would be appreciated and if this post wasn't specific enough I can answer questions or take it down. Thanks!
Never and I mean NEVER let user deploy updates on his/her computer themselves by clicking on some batch or exe file. Two reasons:
It will just not work and big part of machines will not be updated.
You are teaching users that they can run various and unknown batch files / powershell scripts / exe files, because it's safe.
Since you said "hundreds of users" I believe that you have some domain there.
What you might be looking for are the Group Policies (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-wufb-group-policy) or WSUS (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-manage-updates-wsus).
As a final step in our AD account creation process that is being moved to a powershell script a few folders need to be created on the filer for users and I am coming unstuck with permissions.
I am just using the basic new-item command to create folder but the locations need unix permissions (775) set before anything can be created. I can't go there and right click in Windows explorer and click new.. and the powershell script is being bounced also due to permissions.
The reasoning from one of the tech guys here is that I am trying to create a sub folder via smb mount from Windows using ntfs permissions. There is no correlation to unix permissions and any of our Linux users won't be able to access / use the location created for them.
Sorry if that is a clumsy way of explaining it, I am not a systems engineer, just the guy trying to translate a whole heap if pearl scripts into a new powershell process.
Thank you
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I'd like to automate several FileMaker tasks using Windows Task Scheduler. It looks like step scripts are the way to go, but I'm not sure. I'd like to run tasks, say exporting for example, several times per day, but WITHOUT opening the FileMaker GUI. Is that possible? Any tips you have would be great. Thanks.
It's possible to initiate a Filemaker script using a schedule server script with Filemaker Server. However, if the database is not hosted using Filemaker server, or not open using Filemaker Pro (sounds like your situation), then there is no active engine able to actually perform the calculations (script steps, etc). The database has to be running somewhere to initiate and perform any scripts.
If the database is hosted using Filemaker Server then it is pretty easy to setup a scheduled script that will run at a designated time. If you don't have a license of Filemaker Server some Filemaker cloud hosting providers have monthly plans that are relatively cheap ($20/month with unlimited connections), and they'll work with you to setup a scheduled script (for free).
The best way to automate FileMaker tasks is to use FileMaker Server which has scheduled scripts. Of course it is more expensive than standalone version of FileMaker Pro.
If you automate tasks on a local FileMaker file, you can not avoid starting FileMaker and opening the file.
FileMaker has a limited support for VBScript, you can run FileMaker, open file and run a FileMaker Script from VBScript and add that script to Windows Task Scheduler.
This is not preferable way, but if you have no other option, this may be handy.
in Task Scheduler, Create a task
on Action tab, choose
"Start Program"
on the next screen, point to FileMaker Pro exe file, typically it is in C:\Program Files\Filemaker Pro\FileMaker.exe
Add argument:
"fmp://hostName/fileName.fmp12?script=scriptName¶m=optionalScriptParameters"
please read more here http://www.filemaker.com/help/12/fmp/en/html/sharing_data.16.7.html about url schema. This will vary depending on whether you are hosting your file on FileMaker Server or opening it locally.
Note: avoid having spaces or special characters in script name.
Save the task. Reopen task properties and save your windows account credentials, so that the task may run without you having to login.
either save FileMaker login credentials upon login (if your FM version allows), or pass credentials through fmp url (as described in the link above), or go to FileMaker file options, and use credentials in "Log in using": (which is not secure and not recommended).
I am using this method to automatically send emails with PDF attachments, since FileMaker server does not let you Export Records as PDF (not until v.16) on server scripts.
I tried about a dozen PowerShell scripts that I found and not one even created a single share.
We are migrating from Win 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 and SQL Server 2014.
I have to create a ton of shares and assign a lot of varying permissions.
I'm looking for (ideally) a Powershell script (but can live with VB or anything else) that can go through a list of shares and permissions and create/assign them.
For example
E:\Folder1\A Share1 Domain\Tom Read
E:\Folder1\A Share1 Domain\Dick Full
E:\Folder1\A Share1 Domain\Harry Change
So it would go through every line, see if the share exists, if not create it, then assign the permissions.
On Server 2012R2 you can use the New-SmbShare cmdlet : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj635722(v=wps.630).aspx
On older versions you have to fall back to WMI to do it :https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389393(v=vs.85).aspx (the article even has a PS example).
With Set-Acl you can set the ACLs for the shares.
As you can see all the tools to acomplish this are available in a default installation of Windows Server.
Is there such a thing as a shell-based command-line client for Microsoft's Jet database engine?
Something similar to SQLite 3.x (sqlite3.exe) for SQLite.
Will PowerShell be suitable? Fellow MVP Richard Siddaway has started a very interesting series of blog postings on using PowerShell and Access. You can ignore the Office 2010 tag on his blog postings. Also note that I know nothing about PowerShell.
This may suit:
Cscript.exe is a command-line version
of the Windows Script Host that
provides command-line options for
setting script properties.
With Cscript.exe, you can run scripts
by typing the name of a script file at
the command prompt. Like Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Windows Script Host
serves as a controller of Windows
Script compliant scripting engines,
but Windows Script Host has very low
memory requirements. Windows Script
Host is ideal for both interactive and
non-interactive scripting needs, such
as logon scripting and administrative
scripting.
Windows Script Host supports scripts
written in VBScript or JScript.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/wsh_runfromcommandprompt.mspx?mfr=true
Something like osql with the right data provider? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa214012(SQL.80).aspx
Entering the conversation here 10 years after the original question, but I've played with a couple of tools that should work:
YouAccess (http://youaccess.sourceforge.net): "YouAccess is a free (donationware) lifesaver console µapplication intended for SQL management of Microsoft® Access™ databases from command line, including creating them."
JetSQLConsole (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jetsqlconsole): "A command line/console interface for Microsoft Access databases, very similar to the MySQL client application."