Dos command with variable

[Gino]

Hi

I'm new to AutoIT and a friend tipt me about it.

My problem is that I want to do a "Windows" program for one in the office so I dont need to do all typing. We are moving about 600 people from one Novell tree to a new tree and when we copy the user files the ownership is set to admin. To fix this we need to type in a DOS windows as followd:

map r i:=\\cl_hem\hem\zzz\zzzyyyy

flag \*.* /s /name=.yyyy.zzz.fim.fack

map del i:

this is what to write for 600 people.

The girl in the office will help me if I can fix a "win" script with question boxes.

First a box that will ask for "zzz", second a box that will ask for "yyyy" then run the script. The "zzz" stands for department number and yyyy is the username.

Hope some one can help me.

/Gunnar

[buzz44]

hello, i alos had the same problem when i was making a script using cmd and need a variable, this is what my script used.

Run(@ComSpec & ' /c xcopy /e /h /y "' & $Folder1 & '" "' & $Folder2 & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)

as you can c i have 2 variables in there folder1 and folder 2, it runs in a hidden window to so u wont know its there , the xcopy /e /h /y are just commands for the xcopy function, which is called by using /c, if u want to cal and external program u must use /c then the program , then its functions, hope that helps

[DaveF]

Hi

I'm new to AutoIT and a friend tipt me about it.

My problem is that I want to do a "Windows" program for one in the office so I dont need to do all typing. We are moving about 600 people from one Novell tree to a new tree and when we copy the user files the ownership is set to admin. To fix this we need to type in a DOS windows as followd:

map r i:=\\cl_hem\hem\zzz\zzzyyyy

flag \*.* /s /name=.yyyy.zzz.fim.fack

map del i:

this is what to write for 600 people.

The girl in the office will help me if I can fix a "win" script with question boxes.

First a box that will ask for "zzz", second a box that will ask for "yyyy" then run the script. The "zzz" stands for department number and yyyy is the username.

Hope some one can help me.

/Gunnar

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Gino/Gunnar, there's got to be a better solution that what you've got. Have you looked at the NetWare cool solutions site for anything that might help with this?

If not, the place where AutoIt could help with this would be making an AutoIt script that let you authenticate to NetWare as a user with supervisor permission for performing the ownership change for the files, then compiling the AutoIt script into an EXE which could be run from each user's NetWare login script. The login script would have both the username and maybe the department #, I guess, as an NDS Group? That way the permission change would run for each user at login time, on demand.

[ioliver]

Gino, welcome to the forum. Try the follow code, it might help to get you started:

$zzz = InputBox("zzz", "Enter Department Number:")
$yyyy = InputBox("yyyy", "Enter User Name:")

RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'map r i:=\\cl_hem\hem\' & $zzz & '\' & $zzz & $yyyy & '', "", @SW_HIDE)
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'flag \*.* /s /name=.' & $yyyy & '.' & $zzz & '.fim.fack', "", @SW_HIDE)
RunWiat(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'map del i:', "", @SW_HIDE)

MsgBox(0, "zzz & yyyy", "Script Complete!")

This code is not tested, so don't expect it to work correctly. But the concept should be sound.

Also, check the Help File for InputBox(), and Run(), and RunWait(). Those commands should be what you need.

Hope this helps,

Ian

[IanR]

A while since I've used Netware, but I seem to recall that I usually migrated server disks by xcopying, and then running a little utility that backed-up the security info on the source disk. It created a batch-file which, if run on the destination disk, put the security-info back. Can't remember its name, but it should be on the Novell site I should think.

Might be of help here, anyway.