Ownership And Permissions question

[Chimaera]

The cmd window flashes for me on Win7 HomePremium 64-bit

It probably means it worked as you are already the owner of the files.

last section is now like this though

" /r /d y"

Another question for the masses..

Is it possible to restrict FileSelectFolder to only show main drive letters?

So you can only pick C:\ or D:\ or E:\ etc and not be able to open them up?

[Joon]

Another question for the masses..

Is it possible to restrict FileSelectFolder to only show main drive letters?

So you can only pick C:\ or D:\ or E:\ etc and not be able to open them up?

If that's your only requirement, I would rather give users radio button or dropdown list. After using DriveGetDrive("FIXED") function.

But, that's just me

Edited June 15, 2011 by Joon

[Chimaera]

Another small advise please

Im using perms.exe to check the folder C:Users for permissions

I have this which isnt working

$perms = @WorkingDir & "\perms.exe"

$perms_syntax = " /c " & $perms & " " & @UserName & " " & $source & "Users"
ConsoleWrite($perms_syntax & @LF)
$perms_check = RunWait(@ComSpec & $perms_syntax)
$perms_test = StringInStr($perms_check, "P", "", "", -1)
ConsoleWrite($perms_test & @LF)

The consolewrite gives me

/c C:\Users\Jez\Desktop\Code\Attribute and Permissions\perms.exe Jez c:\Users

0

But it should be 1 to indicate the presence of the "P"

This is the CMD output for same test

perms Jez C:\Users gives

C:\Users\ perms: *RWXDPO-

And you can clearly see the P in the cmd output

So what am i doing wrong?

EDIT

Ok thats weird

i added this

If $perms_test = "P" Then MsgBox(0,"","yay")

and sure enough i get yay

so why is the consolewrite perms_test zero?

Edited June 20, 2011 by Chimaera

[GEOSoft]

I just get an error testing it; $Source is not declared. What should that value be?

I think I see your problem but I want to test it to be sure.

EDIT: Actually you should be able to get a good idea yourself by running this code.

$perms = @WorkingDir & "\perms.exe"

$perms_syntax = " /c " & $perms & " " & @UserName & " " & $source & "Users"
ConsoleWrite($perms_syntax & @LF)
$perms_check = RunWait(@ComSpec & $perms_syntax)
ConsoleWrite($perms_Check & @LF)
$perms_test = StringInStr($perms_check, "P", "", "", -1)
ConsoleWrite($perms_test & @LF)

You can't read the StdIO stream with RunWait()

Edited June 20, 2011 by GEOSoft

[BrewManNH]

You might need to include the default parameters for the StringInStr function rather than an empty string and your parameters are in the wrong place.

$perms_test = StringInStr($perms_check, "P", 0, -1)

The zero is probably the error you're getting from the StringInStr because you started the search from the -1 position, which I'd guess is going to throw an error.

[GEOSoft]

He probably needed -2 or -3 in there because of EOL character(s) but I don't see where it should actually return a string; simply because he's using RunWait()

[BrewManNH]

Yeah, I wasn't paying attention to HOW he was getting the string, just that he was searching the string wrong in his example.

I would think the script would need to run the perms.exe program with the $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD flags set to read the output from the program, rather than the exitcode.

[GEOSoft]

Don't feel bad. I had previously stated exactly the same as you did in a reply then saw the issue and had to delete that post while I was working it out again.