Hello
Adam Peart wrote:
At 01:09 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote:
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cd /d %0\..
if errorlevel 1 ( net use /PERSISTENT:NO > NUL: net use Z: \\ntinstall\install > NUL: cd /d Z:\ set connect=YES )
In dos, you can only work through a drive letter. You can't directly use a unc path.
Yes and no, you can start a script with \\ntinstall\intall\test.cmd from eg. C:\winnt\ (or double click through browsing from the Windows Explorer to this share), but you can not cd into a UNC path.
But in my example the cd /d %0\.. will fail (and should if %0 contains a UNC), and then sets errorlevel to 1, which is then checked with the if loop and then the Z: drive is mappend and ready for the scripts/paths called from the test.cmd to use.
But when the script is started from Z:\ drive the cd /d %0\.. will work and so the if loop will be skiped.
Probably it is a bad example with the text.cmd directly in the root of Z:\ but should work. I did my testing on an other drive/share in an folder.
Just save the script into a file an try it out (and change the X: to Z: in the last net use line as corrected in the other mail), nothing bad will happend, only some text output.
My script will give some error if the Z: is already mapped and the script is started as \\ntinstall\install\test.cmd, as this is not checkt. Probably a better solution would be to change the first if loop of the script as following (not tested, as I'm currently at home):
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if errorlevel 1 ( net use /PERSISTENT:NO > NUL: net use Z: \\ntinstall\install > NUL: if errorlevel 0 ( set connect=YES ) cd /d Z:\ )
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This way, the Z: drive gets only disconnected at the end of the script if it wasn't already connected at the start, the first version did disconnect anyway if the script is started from the UNC.
This solution will fail, if the server is not reachable, but as we start the script from the same server/share it should be reachable and not be a big problem. ;)
bye Fabian
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