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#44844 - 2003-09-05 04:28 PM How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	Hi guys, I am looking for a consistant way to check if a workstation is on the network, or not. (not by just using @IPADRESS0) Regards
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#44845 - 2003-09-05 04:31 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Jack Lothian Jack Lothian MM club member Registered: 1999-10-22 Posts: 1169 Loc: Ottawa,Ontario, Canada	Wouldn't you need somthing link a ping? (I think the UDF forum contains some UDFs that do this.) Having a valid IP address doesn't necessarily mean the machine is attached to an operating network. [ 05. September 2003, 16:32: Message edited by: Jack Lothian ] _________________________ Jack
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#44846 - 2003-09-05 04:32 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	What do you mean by "on the network"? Also do you want the check done from a central server or at the client? _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#44847 - 2003-09-05 04:37 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	Not a nice way I am using this to check at the login the exectue different kind of login script (network, modem or stand alone). henri@kixtart.nl told me that someone already post something about my question : Forum: starters Subject: How to check the connection to the local network ? Who Replied: Jack Lothian
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#44848 - 2003-09-05 04:39 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	Sorry for the end of my answer.
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#44849 - 2003-09-05 04:48 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	hmm... henri might want to change the e-mail addy. like you might have quessed, it's automailer. could you explain a little more. as obvious, stand-alone logonscript is not possible. as, to get the logonscript, the machine needs to already be logged on to the network. what you mean by modem? you talking about RAS connections? _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#44850 - 2003-09-05 04:52 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Jack Lothian Jack Lothian MM club member Registered: 1999-10-22 Posts: 1169 Loc: Ottawa,Ontario, Canada	Misunderstood your question. First by standalone you imply that there is no network logon, right? In this case your logon script never gets executed by the user & you can not help them. Thus you are really trying to detect RAS connections versus direct logons. This has been discussed several times before. Is your reference about @IPADRESS0 related to to this posting by Howard? Another board question. Also, have you read the section on the @RAS function in the manual? [ 05. September 2003, 16:58: Message edited by: Jack Lothian ] _________________________ Jack
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#44851 - 2003-09-05 05:19 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	Well, sorry for my poor english, I will try to be clear We have W2K Prof as OS. I defined the Local Policy for the user to execute the login script at the connection. I completely bypass the netlogon process so I can My login script is working has following : When a user opens a session, the script defined in the policy is executed locally on the station. I check if the station is on the network, on RAS or stand alone. If it is on the network, I check which subnet it is, affect the server file depending on the subnet, then I update on the station all the required files to be executed for a RAS or stand alone session then I do what a login script is for - install sofware - mount share drivers /printers - configure desktop ... If it is a RAS session, I just mount the shares and configure the desktop or a stand alone session, I just configure the desktop I am just looking for a nice way to rapidly check what kind of session it is. I already use @IPADRESS0, but in some case the result is not good (still the network adress) and the script need to be run twice to get the rignt value Exemple: network session : 192.0.0.1 RAS session : 192.250.0.1 stand alone : 127.0.0.1 or EMPTY Is it more clear
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#44852 - 2003-09-05 05:29 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Jack Lothian Jack Lothian MM club member Registered: 1999-10-22 Posts: 1169 Loc: Ottawa,Ontario, Canada	Why don't you post your script plus tell us what version of kixtart you are running? I suspect this will get you the answer faster. When you post script code use "CODE" button in the "POST A REPLY" screen. This will improve the readability of the code. _________________________ Jack
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#44853 - 2003-09-05 05:34 PM

Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?

Philippe Offline

Fresh Scripter

Registered: 2001-06-21
Posts: 17
Loc: Poitiers, France

Well, I will put just the piece of code where I try to check connexion

...

code:

 
; 
; Get the Current IP Adress
;
$IPAddress = @IPADDRESS0
$oct1 = LTRIM(SUBSTR($IPAddress, 1, 3))
$oct2 = LTRIM(SUBSTR($IPAddress, 5, 3))
$oct3 = LTRIM(SUBSTR($IPAddress, 9, 3))
$oct4 = LTRIM(SUBSTR($IPAddress, 13, 3))
$IPAdress = "$oct1.$oct2.$oct3.$oct4"
$oct1_int=0+$oct1
$oct2_int=0+$oct2
$oct3_int=0+$oct3
$oct4_int=0+$oct4
;
; 
;
SET "ModeConnexion="
SELECT
	CASE $oct1_int=127
		Set "ModeConnexion=AUTONOME"
		$MODECONNEXION="AUTONOME"
                GOTO AUTONOME
	CASE $oct1_int=10
	        IF ($oct2_int<>200)
		   Set "ModeConnexion=RESEAU"
		   $MODECONNEXION="RESEAU"
		   GOTO RESEAU
                ELSE
		   Set "ModeConnexion=MODEM"
	           $MODECONNEXION="MODEM"
		   GOTO MODEM
		ENDIF
	CASE 1
		Set "ModeConnexion=MODEM"
                $MODECONNEXION="MODEM"
		GOTO MODEM
ENDSELECT
...

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#44854 - 2003-09-05 05:42 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	for stand alone check, think this is enough: if "%logonserver%"=@wksta "local logon" endif not sure, but hey, give it a try _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#44855 - 2003-09-05 05:44 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	thanks i'll try it
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#44856 - 2003-09-05 08:18 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Jack Lothian Jack Lothian MM club member Registered: 1999-10-22 Posts: 1169 Loc: Ottawa,Ontario, Canada	Would standalone computers always return an IP address of 127.0.0.1 or empty? Have you tested this? _________________________ Jack
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#44857 - 2003-09-05 11:47 PM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	why should they? I mean, even though they are stand-alone, they normally do have IP's _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#44858 - 2003-09-08 08:27 AM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	Sometimes I have nothing, sometimes I have address given by the OS (192.????) as I remember, sometimes I have 127.0.0.1
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#44859 - 2003-09-08 08:39 AM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	127.0.0.1 should come only when computer has never been assigned an IP... well, AFAIK. anyway, all computers have 127... address and nothing should be counted on that. as example, w2k machine that has been configured for dhcp and haven't reached the server will make a bogus IP for itself. anyway, when logging locally, the logonserver nor the @ldrive are never other than local. so, if these are local, in normal environment it means that the wksta is not logged on to the domain. at least not primarily. now, your setup is far from normal so I have no confidence this will work either. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#44860 - 2003-09-08 08:42 AM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Philippe Philippe Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-06-21 Posts: 17 Loc: Poitiers, France	Thank you for your info. I will work in that direction
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#44861 - 2003-09-08 09:57 AM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	quote: 127.0.0.1 should come only when computer has never been assigned an IP... well, AFAIK Not quite. The 127.0.0.1 address is the loopback address, and this will always be present in the TCP/IP stack, although it should never be bound to a card. If you issue a "route print" you will see the 127.0.0.0 network and the 127.0.0.1 address. It is a very important address, as it is effectively internal to your TCP/IP stack. This means (for instance) that you can test that you have networking installed by pinging this address, even if you don't have an active LAN or dial-up connection. You can also develop network applications / web pages and whatever else while offline. When you are connecting network applications on the same machine, such as a web browser and server, or an application to a database via pipes or ODBC you should always use the loopback address. This way the traffic won't hit the card and/or the network, and processing will be far faster.
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#44862 - 2003-09-08 10:43 AM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	should have quessed that answer I was totally referring to his: quote: Sometimes I have nothing, sometimes I have address given by the OS (192.????) as I remember, sometimes I have 127.0.0.1 now, if @ipaddy gives that... anyway, your comment is totally right _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#44863 - 2003-09-09 12:08 AM Re: How to check the connection to the local network ?
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	just ping the default GW. _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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