batfastad Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 There must be a way to detect whether a user is connected to a network. What is it? I'm new to v3 so i'm trying my hand at a few things that I couldn't figure out using v2. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scriptkitty Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Usually I just try to see a file on a network share. FileGetSize etc. AutoIt3, the MACGYVER Pocket Knife for computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 do u mean the user or the actual computer? if it was the computer u could just ping the computer -Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 AND if it was the user, you could use pstools (PSLoggedOn) to see who is logged on. -Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfastad Posted May 14, 2004 Author Share Posted May 14, 2004 What's PSTools? I couldn't find any mention of it in the AutiIt 3 documentation! If I wanted to do it by pinging, then how do I go about it? I can run the ping command no problem. Then do I detect the window text to see if it contains "request timed out"? Is there not a better way to do it? I don't want a black ping box to be firing up! I'm trying to make a startup script for our networked database - users get local copies of the database backed up onto their machines for when they are away at show - so they can search for contact details etc. And when the user runs this script, I'd like to be able to test whether they (user/computer) are connected to our network or not. The added problem is that some users machines don't auth with the network properly - laptops - which may rule out the FileExist ir FileGetSize option as they might be connected - just not logged in. If they are connected to our network then load up the network database (I already have my script do this), otherwise load up a local copy (again, no problem). I just need to know if that user's machine, at that time is connected to OUR network - but not necessarily logged on! Obviously if they're connected but not logged in, then I can't use the FileGetSize on a shared file! Any other suggestions? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugi Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 Just a small addon: There seem to be some problems with the exit code of ping. The exit code only seems to be correct if running on a WinXP computer (check: v3 Scripts & Scraps -> Check if a computer is online)If you want to get rid of the black command line window, try using RunWait("foobar", "", @SW_HIDE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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