Running AutoIt scripts from a mapped drive

[jrf]

I am having a stange issue here. I have been working with some scripts that call an exe from a defines working directory. I have been running these for a couple months now with now issues. That is until someone tried to execute the script from a mapped drive vs the UNC path. I have tried everything I can think of to trouble shoot this, but it seems no matter what I do if someone has a drive mapping to a shared folder and then navigates to my scripts they fail. The error is always the same:

Line 0 (File "Y:\autoit.exe"):

Run("Setup.exe", "\\server\path")

Error: Unable to execute the external program.

The system cannot find the path specified.

Like I said before if I run this via the unc instead of Y: it works perfectly....

If someone can help or even just tell me why I would greatly appreciate it!

[Mordenkain]

When I use the Run command, I can't it to work the way thw help file describes it ("filename", "dir"). But when I just use Run("full file path") it works. Dunno why the help file explains it the other way, but either its wrong, or very misleading.

Peace

- Mordenkain

[PsaltyDS]

Run("Setup.exe", "\\server\path")

Error: Unable to execute the external program.

The system cannot find the path specified.

Look at the helpfile for Run(): Your line says to run Setup.exe, using \\server\path as the working directory. The parameter "workingdir" is NOT the location of the executable. If you just want to run it from the UNC, use:

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[jrf]

Thanks everyone. I kept testing it and I now have it working correctly. I was also under the impressions that the working dir was the location of the EXE but the more and more I analyzed the errors I realized that it always showed the program running from where ever I started the script. I put the full path in front of the exe and got it to work that way.

In the past I have soley used this via SMS so the exe was always in the same location as the script so it just worked.

Thanks!