V3 newbie

[shornw]

Help, I need to copy a file from a server to the temp dir on users workstation, no problem so far...file copies OK.

when I try and run it I get a 'Cannot find file' error. This is the script line it fails on:

$temp = EnvGet("temp")

FileCopy ("\\server\download$\filename.exe", $temp)

RunWait ("filename.exe.",$temp)

I'm totally new to V3 so please be gentle.

Thanks for any help anyone can give

[MHz]

Welcome shornw,

Specify a path to the file as $temp would not be your working directory.

$temp = EnvGet("temp")
FileCopy ("\\server\download$\filename.exe", $temp)
RunWait ($temp & "\filename.exe.",$temp)

[Don N]

Try removing the $ from

FileCopy ("\\server\download$\filename.exe", $temp)

I know downlaod is a shared folder but you do not need to access it this way. You can leave out the $ and it should work.

[shornw]

Thanks for super -fast replies guys....

MHz...I will try this as soon as possible and keep you posted...even better would be to get it to run from the remote location (ie download$) but I cant seem to get that to happen...?????

I dont know if its related but if I try and run the file from a folder other than Windows (ie C:\Temp) I get an error message that says 'The parameter is incorrect'. Unfortunately there is only 1 partition. I have admin rights and the folder permissions are wide open. I have tried running it from mapped drive but to no avail. If I copy it to C:\windows it runs fine so perhaps the %path% is the problem. I cannot use the window folder as users dont have rights to save a file there. Its just about starting to do my head in now!!!

Don N...Thanks for that...I should have clarified that the remote location is a hidden server share so has to be pathed with $, nothing to do with AutoIt variables.

[Don N]

Not sure if this is possible but this could work for running it on the remote directory without putting the script in that remote directory.

Can you jsut FileChangeDir( REMOTE DIRECTORY )

Then RunAsSet ( ["user", "domain", "password" [, options]] )

This should run the file on the remote directory because you changed the working dir to the remote dir.

[GEOSoft]

Thanks for super -fast replies guys....

MHz...I will try this as soon as possible and keep you posted...even better would be to get it to run from the remote location (ie download$) but I cant seem to get that to happen...?????

I dont know if its related but if I try and run the file from a folder other than Windows (ie C:\Temp) I get an error message that says 'The parameter is incorrect'. Unfortunately there is only 1 partition. I have admin rights and the folder permissions are wide open. I have tried running it from mapped drive but to no avail. If I copy it to C:\windows it runs fine so perhaps the %path% is the problem. I cannot use the window folder as users dont have rights to save a file there. Its just about starting to do my head in now!!!

Don N...Thanks for that...I should have clarified that the remote location is a hidden server share so has to be pathed with $, nothing to do with AutoIt variables.

%Path% won't work.

Try

FileCopy ("\\server\download$\filename.exe", @TempDir)
RunWait (@TempDir & "\filename.exe.",@TempDir)

Edited May 24, 2006 by GEOSoft

[MHz]

MHz...I will try this as soon as possible and keep you posted...even better would be to get it to run from the remote location (ie download$) but I cant seem to get that to happen...?????

This requires the latest AutoIt Beta for restarting the compiled exe using "/AutoIt3ExecuteScript". This may work for you. Fill in the RunAsSet details to try it.

RunWait("\\server\download$\filename.exe", "\\server\download$")

Func OnAutoItStart()
    If $CMDLINE[0] And $CMDLINE[1] <> '/admin' Then
        RunAsSet('user', 'domain', 'password')
        Run(@AutoItExe & ' /AutoIt3ExecuteScript "' & @ScriptFullPath & '" /admin')
        RunAsSet()
        Exit
    EndIf
EndFunc

[shornw]

Thanks everybody, really appreciate your help...

as it happens I sorted it a different way, I'm not a programmer and never will be lol

looking at the Run command solved my 'wont run remotely' issue....simply enter the full working path in the filename part of the command ie

RunWait( "\\servershare\filename")

I was following the RunWait help ie

RunWait("filename", "\\servershare")

I said I'll never be a programmer, serves me right for following instruction blindly and not thinking about it ....for a while

Havent really found resolution as to why the .exe wont run from a folder on the root of C: though, it's not a problem in this instance any more but puzzles the heck out of me. I'm sure its gonna rear its ugly head again.

Thanks again to all of you who took time to respond

[GEOSoft]

Havent really found resolution as to why the .exe wont run from a folder on the root of C: though, it's not a problem in this instance any more but puzzles the heck out of me. I'm sure its gonna rear its ugly head again.

Thanks again to all of you who took time to respond

It's the same problem you had before. Set the path,

RunWait("C:\myfile.exe")

otherwise it will try to run it from the current folder which is most likely your desktop.