Map a drive in WINPE using a variable from the first line of a text file

[slaney30]

I'm having some issues with an AUTOIT script and was wondering if someone could help me troubleshoot what I am doing wrong. I've looked through all the help files and can't seem to find out where I'm going wrong.

 

I have a script that maps the z drive successfully if I do not pull the variable from the text file. The following below works fine in the PE environment. Unfortunately I need to pull the variable from a text file on the machine that runs it because the server.domain.com will change depending upon machine.

Script 1 (works)

Global $server = 'server.domain.com'
MsgBox( 0, "variable value", $server)
DriveMapAdd("Z:", "\\" & $server & "\deployment", 0, "domain.com\useraccount", "(password)")

The script does not work:

Global $sFilePath = @ScriptDir & "\servervar.txt"


FileOpen($sFilePath, 0)


Global $server = FileReadLine( "servervar.txt" )


MsgBox(0, "variable value", $server)


DriveMapAdd("Z:", "\\" & $server & "\deployment", 0, "domain.com\useraccount", "(password)")

I added the Msgbox to confirm that the $server variable was indeed gathering the correct data, and it does have the correct data that i would expect.

 

Can anyone tell me why first script would work, but the 2nd will not? Like I said the 2nd script MsgBox is displaying the same data that i set manually with in the first script. I am new to autoit so if it's something really silly I apologize in advance.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

[JLogan3o13]

"doesn't work"; doesn't help much

What error does the DriveMapAdd exit with? Throw a MsgBox after it, looking for @error.

[EndFunc]

Make sure there are no spaces or new lines in the file. That might be causing some issues.

Maybe try

Global $server = StringStripWS(FileReadLine( "servervar.txt" ), 8)

[slaney30]

"doesn't work"; doesn't help much

What error does the DriveMapAdd exit with? Throw a MsgBox after it, looking for @error.

By "doesn't work" i meant it doesn't map the drive.

The @error that is displaying is 1.   

[Spider001]

else do a

ConsoleWrite("" & $server & "deployment")

maybe the fault come up if its a char problem

[slaney30]

 

Make sure there are no spaces or new lines in the file. That might be causing some issues.

Maybe try

Global $server = StringStripWS(FileReadLine( "servervar.txt" ), 8)

You are awesome! This is exactly what solved my problem. It must have been grabbing to many characters instead of only the characters listed. Thanks so much for your help!