...and by %computername%, I of course mean whatever variable you'd like to expand.
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive% Your entire command line gets parsed on your computer first and then it performs the operation. Assume you're running from a PC named Workstation against a server named Server. Psexec \\server<file:///\\server> cmd /c echo %computername% Gets parsed to Psexec \\server<file:///\\server> cmd /c echo Workstation Which is exactly what the server does. What you want is Psexec \\server<file:///\\server> cmd /c echo ^%computername^% The carets escape the percents to pass the command echo %computername% to the server. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive% Thanks Carl, I see what you are saying now. I just don't understand the behavior. I would think anything after the "SERVERNAME" would be evaluated on the remote machine, but that doesn't' seem to be the case when specifying a variable. thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: "Carl Houseman" <c.house...@gmail.com> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Date: 11/08/2010 06:10 PM Subject: RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive% ________________________________ Do this psexec \\SERVERNAME<file:///\\SERVERNAME\> cmd /c set So what's the difference. Look again at this very carefully... psexec \\SERVERNAME cmd.exe /c echo %homedrive% Hint: On what computer is %homedrive% expanded ? Carl From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PSEXEC and %homedrive% I would agree with this, except that when I enumerate that using PSEXEC, I get the correct value, so it does seem to be setting it: *************************************************************************************** H:\Utilities>psexec \\SERVERNAME cmd.exe /c echo %homedrive% PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com C: cmd.exe exited on gbtinvsql2x with error code 0. *************************************************************************************** Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Date: 11/08/2010 04:15 PM Subject: Re: PSEXEC and %homedrive% ________________________________ On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Christopher Bodnar <christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: > I've got a VBS script that we use pretty frequently, and I was trying to run > it remotely using PSEXEC against a bunch of systems. Finally narrowed the > problem down to the fact that for some reason, the %HOMEDRIVE% variable and > PSEXEC didn't mix well on some systems. %HOMEDRIVE% is set as part of the user logon process, which, in my experience, generally doesn't happen for anything except a typical GUI logon. (%HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% both come from the setting on the "Profile" tab of an account's properties.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
