How to do a subst, using AutoIT

[Rex]

Hi i'm trying to recreate a login script.

Converting bat to autoit, but i have problem with the dos command subst, i can't finde any function in AutoIt thats "cloning" af folder to a drive(letter)

I do not wish to share the folder by network, there for i ude the subst command.

Any of u have a sugg.

/Rex

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

what do you mean? DirCopy?

So long,

Mega

[Rex]

Hi,

what do you mean? DirCopy?

So long,

Mega

nope not dircopy, that would just copy the contains :-)

subst mounts a folder as a drive, this i a kinde of using net use (X: \\server\name\folder)

where subst don not need the computer to be connecet to a network... eg. subst X: "C:\Temp" would "map" the C:\Temp folder as drive X

/Rex

[Monamo]

$sDriveLetter ="Q:"
$sSubstPath = "C:\Temp"
Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'subst ' &$sDriveLetter &' ' &$sSubstPath , "", @SW_HIDE)

[ChrisL]

Run ("SUBST X: D:\HotQ","",@SW_Hide)

[Rex]

$sDriveLetter ="Q:"
$sSubstPath = "C:\Temp"
Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'subst ' &$sDriveLetter &' ' &$sSubstPath , "", @SW_HIDE)

I would not use the comspec i i can avoide it (don't like to mix old style / newstyle) and there are to many var's to keep track of.. (the script checks the name of the user current login on, and then "clones"/substs the users special folder to a drive) But if the use have speciel car's in the name and the are not translated correctly or somhow the comspec don't regonice them, the script fails :-(

/Rex

[Rex]

Run ("SUBST X: D:\HotQ","",@SW_Hide)

This alsow just starts the comspec, just a nother way :-(

/Rex

[ChrisL]

I would not use the comspec i i can avoide it (don't like to mix old style / newstyle) and there are to many var's to keep track of.. (the script checks the name of the user current login on, and then "clones"/substs the users special folder to a drive) But if the use have speciel car's in the name and the are not translated correctly or somhow the comspec don't regonice them, the script fails :-(

/Rex

Surely then it is the job of your script to trap for special characters, why calling subst with the run command would cause issues with the amount of variables you need to keep track of. I'll pretty much guarantee that any other method is going to be harder and likely involve more variables than the methods already explained

[Rex]

Surely then it is the job of your script to trap for special characters, why calling subst with the run command would cause issues with the amount of variables you need to keep track of. I'll pretty much guarantee that any other method is going to be harder and likely involve more variables than the methods already explained

Hmmm this is wher my poor english hits the wall, cource i did't mee var's like in $var but more like somthing out of my hands things, don't know how to say it...

In my language, we have som car's that the comspect cant handle except if the are in DOS txt style (can't rember what it's called) so when i want to use the letter "ø" i need to convert i to "" using ALT + 0155 (acsii), and still i can't get i to work thru autoit and comspect, using i i use bat there is no prob at all ???

But is't there a func in Autoit that works just like subst ??? see that would be a cool func....

/Rex

[ChrisL]

But is't there a func in Autoit that works just like subst ??? see that would be a cool func....

/Rex

No not a built in function.

Whatever you put in a bat file would be the same calling run("subst......")

Edited July 10, 2007 by ChrisL

[ChrisL]

Ive just created a folder called FølœR and this code works fine

Run ("SUBST X: D:\FølœR","",@SW_Hide)

[Rex]

No not a built in function.

Whatever you put in a bat file would be the same calling run("subst......")

Cant get it to work :-(

[Rex]

Ive just created a folder called FølR and this code works fine

Run ("SUBST X: D:\FølR","",@SW_Hide)

Damned now i know why the sh.. don't work for me.... i misspelled the folder name

Jow it's working, thx

/Rex

[RDSchaefer]

Hi i'm trying to recreate a login script.

Converting bat to autoit, but i have problem with the dos command subst, i can't finde any function in AutoIt thats "cloning" af folder to a drive(letter)

I do not wish to share the folder by network, there for i ude the subst command.

Any of u have a sugg.

/Rex

Look up DriveMapAdd(...)

Ralph

[Rex]

Look up DriveMapAdd(...)

Ralph

That requiers a shared folder, and that is just wath i don't want

/Rex