Anyway i'm just after a bit of advice from some of you as you seem to be kinda like all rounders. Here goes.

We have several sites throughout the company and each site has a specific script that the users run. This is the logonscript that we run here at Stoke:

code:

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@ECHO OFF
SET SERVER=STOKE
REM Verifying / Updating Script Software Installation, Please Wait...
IF "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" GOTO WinNT
%windir%\command\XCOPY %0\..\KIX\KIX32.EXE %WINDIR%\SYSTEM\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
%windir%\command\XCOPY %0\..\KIX\KX16.DLL %WINDIR%\SYSTEM\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
%windir%\command\XCOPY %0\..\KIX\KX32.DLL %WINDIR%\SYSTEM\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
%windir%\command\XCOPY %0\..\KIX\KX95.DLL %WINDIR%\SYSTEM\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
REM Loading Logon Script, Please Wait...
%windir%\system\kix32.exe \\%server%\sys\programs\logon\loginset.kix
CLS
GOTO End
:WinNT
XCOPY %0\..\KIX\KIX32.EXE %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
XCOPY %0\..\NTUtils\igrant.exe %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
XCOPY %0\..\NTUtils\rmtshare.exe %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\ /D /H /I /R /V > NUL
REM Loading Logon Script, Please Wait...
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\KIX32.EXE \\%server%\sys\programs\logon\loginset.kix
CLS
GOTO end
:End
EXIT

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This is the loginset.kix that is called from the above script.

; Kix32 script to do standard login tasks for Windows
CLS

code:

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USE F: /DELETE
USE F: \\%SERVER%\SYS
USE P: /DELETE
USE P: \\%SERVER%\SYS
USE W: /DELETE
USE W: \\%SERVER%\SYS
USE X: /DELETE
USE X: "\\%CDLIBRARY%\CDLIBRARY"
IF INGROUP("None TCMS Users")
	CALL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\UPDATES.KIX"
ELSE
	CALL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\UPDATES.KIX"
	CALL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\DOWNWIN.KIX"
	CALL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\VECBUILDUPDT.KIX"
	CALL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\TCMSUPDT.KIX"
	CALL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\FIXINI.KIX"
ENDIF
IF @INWIN=2
	SETTIME "\\%SERVER%"
	SHELL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\WINSET WIN95=1"
	SHELL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\WINSET SERVER=%SERVER%"
	USE U: /DELETE
	USE U: "\\%SERVER%\"+@USERID
	SHELL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\WINSET LOGNAME="+UCASE(@USERID)
	SHELL "\\%SERVER%\SYS\PROGRAMS\LOGON\WINSET WPC=/@@U-"+UCASE(@USERID)
ELSE
	SHELL "%COMSPEC% /E:1024 /C NET TIME \\%SERVER% /SET /Y > NUL"
	$NAME = UCASE(@USERID)
	SET "LOGNAME=$NAME"
	$INT = "/@@U-"+UCASE(@USERID)
	SET "WPC=$INT"
ENDIF

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The one we use for say our Liverpool office would be identical except for the fact that the server variable would be set to the Liverpool server. Now this works fine for users that do not roam around different offices but the problem arises when we have a user that works from different offices. Say for example Jo Bloggs user is set up in Stoke he runs stokescr.bat which is fine when he is in Stoke as the scripts run at an adequate speed. But if he logs on in Liverpool he still runs the stoke script and connects to the stoke server and pulls any updates from there which can sometimes take ages. Has anybody got any ideas on a away around this? All I want the roaming users to be able to do is when they are in a remote office they just map the drives to their home server but when they are in their home office they run the updates.

I hope I have made some sense here and that you can be of some assistance. Any help or suggestions are welcome. I was thinking of using the slownet.exe command that comes with SMS but that just checks the speed of the logon server which is no help to me.

Thanks

Julian

[ 09 August 2001: Message edited by: Julian ]

As long as you don't have multiple domain controllers per site... Or even that wouldn't be a problem:

code:

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 SELECT
CASE %server%=STOKE
	IF (@LSERVER=dcstoke1) OR (@LSERVER=dcstoke2) "do updates" ENDIF
CASE %server%=LIVERPOOL
	IF (@LSERVER=dcliverpool1) OR (@LSERVER=dcliverpool2) "do updates" ENDIF
ENDSELECT 

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You get the picture...
Oh, and in light of another discussion about the speed of kix scripts maybe you should considder defining $LSERVER=@LSERVER at the beginning of the script since the macro's seem to be slower. This was the finding, wasn't it guys?

Cheers

Ju

Just one other small problem though? Some of our clients in other offices seems intent on using Stoke as their Logonserver. IS there away to force them to use their local server instead of Stokes?

If these are all one domain (BDC's in each office), then copying the updates with NT replication should be possible.

As for the remote connections - you could structure your script to identify if user connected remotely (via @IPADDRESS or @RAS macro's), set a variable (i.e. $Remote = "1"), then run main script sections based upon this variable. I do similar process on my system, though not running RAS server.

Guess I need a little more info on the domain structure to go further.

Bill

Any more input would be greatlt appreciated.

Julian

Don't know where to find the default gateway but though.

Maybe you can give this a try...

; ****************************************************************************************************************
; File name : INVENTRY.SCR
; Description : Additional script for invenory of workstations
; Location :
; ****************************************************************************************************************
; Date | Description | Initiator
; ------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------
; ****************************************************************************************************************

:GetIpInfo
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Get Location by IP
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$ipadd0=@IPADDRESS0
$3ebyte = " "

$3ebyte = rtrim(ltrim(substr(@IPADDRESS0,9,3))) ; 3rd octet

SELECT
CASE $3ebyte = "1"
Call Stoke.kix
GOTO End

CASE $3ebyte = "2"
Call Lpool.kix
GOTO End

CASE 1
ENDSELECT

:End
; ****************************************************************************************************************
; End of script
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ 15 August 2001: Message edited by: test_user ]

Just another thing is there any reason why you are using CASE here instead of the IF statement?

You can use the Case statement to select each of the sites:

Case site1
do site1 script
Case site2
do site2 script
Case site3
do site3 script

etc.

code:

---

cls
$cardkey=enumkey("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards",0)
$cardkey=readvalue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards\$cardkey","ServiceName")
$defaultgateway=readvalue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\$cardkey","DefaultGateway")
if len($defaultgateway) < 7 ;no static. trying dhcp:
	$defaultgateway=readvalue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\$cardkey","DhcpDefaultGateway")
endif
;gateway record is multistring so let's reduce it pure ip:
$defaultgateway = rtrim(substr($defaultgateway,1,len($defaultgateway)-1))
? "gateway search results: $defaultgateway"
get $
exit

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with kix2001 just do:
$defaultgateway = enumipinfo(0,3)

cheers,

im using the exact line you said:

$defaultgateway = enumipinfo(0,3)
? $defaultgateway

no info returned.

any ideas??

oh and when i return the rror it says 50!

[ 15 August 2001: Message edited by: Julian ]

quote:

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This function is available on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 9x, but not on Windows NT. Furthermore, this function relies on a correct installation of the IP Helper API which is installed as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher. Note that there is a known issue with installing the required DLLs on Windows 9x. Full details on this issue can be found in the following KnowledgeBase article: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q234/5/73.ASP.[/URL]

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cheers,

[ 15 August 2001: Message edited by: Lonkero ]