Perl Script to Generate Logon.bat for SAMBA Users

The following script will generate a vanilla logon.bat file for SAMBA users. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
################################
# Usage: smb-logon-script      #
################################

$startpath="/data/smb-logon-scripts";
$endpath="/data/netlogon/scripts";
$smbhost = "sambahost.domain.com";


@alpha = ("g"..."t","v"..."z","aa"..."zz");
if (! defined $ARGV[0] ) {
        print " Usage: smb-logon-script \n";
        exit;
}
$username = $ARGV[0];
@group = `/usr/bin/getent group|/bin/grep $username |/bin/cut -d: -f1 -`;
$counter=0;
open FILE, ">$startpath/$username.bat.unix";
foreach $group (@group) {
        print FILE "net use $alpha[$counter]: \\\\$smbhost\\$group";
        $counter++;
}
close (FILE);
$convert = `/usr/bin/dos2unix < $startpath/$username.bat.unix > $endpath/$username.bat`;
exit;