[Samba] windows /bat script question
Subject isn't exactly samba, but samba people usually know a lot about windows bat scripting. Here's my problem: Currently our domain login script is doing this (among other things): ifmember.exe WINDOWS-DOMAIN\Projects if errorlevel 1 ( net use p: \\server1\projects ) This works fine. The problem is I'm moving the projects storage to a different server called server 2 (which is linux running samba 3, so it is samba related somewhat). The logic I need is: If p: is on server 1, remove the persistant share \\server1\projects, then if p: does not exist, create a persistant share p: \\server2\projects. Sounds easy enough, but I have no idea how to test if a share is on a particular remote server. I'm trying if exist \\server1\projects, but that doesn't work the way I want it as scripts seem to only understand the local drive letter names, not the remote names. I could try to spit out the contents of net use p: to a file, then parse out the remote name string, and compare that, but that seems like a hard way to accomplish it and I don't want the script parsing out stuff during a login. There's got to be an easier way. I could also just always remove the p:, then mount it from server2. But that adds an extra /delete every single time someone logs on, I'd prefer not to do that. I only want to /delete p: if p: is remote server1, not if it's remote server 2. Anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] windows /bat script question
You could always create an empty txt file, set it to read only on server1, and test in your batch script if the file exists; if esists then re-map, else just map to server 2... If the file doesn't exist, then it's either already mapped to server2 (cause' the file only resides on server1), or there even isn't anything mapped to p:, then it will fix your problem... Sure there's other ways, but this would seem simplest to me; again only my two cents here, try it else see what anyone else comes up with for you. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:51 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] windows /bat script question Subject isn't exactly samba, but samba people usually know a lot about windows bat scripting. Here's my problem: Currently our domain login script is doing this (among other things): ifmember.exe WINDOWS-DOMAIN\Projects if errorlevel 1 ( net use p: \\server1\projects ) This works fine. The problem is I'm moving the projects storage to a different server called server 2 (which is linux running samba 3, so it is samba related somewhat). The logic I need is: If p: is on server 1, remove the persistant share \\server1\projects, then if p: does not exist, create a persistant share p: \\server2\projects. Sounds easy enough, but I have no idea how to test if a share is on a particular remote server. I'm trying if exist \\server1\projects, but that doesn't work the way I want it as scripts seem to only understand the local drive letter names, not the remote names. I could try to spit out the contents of net use p: to a file, then parse out the remote name string, and compare that, but that seems like a hard way to accomplish it and I don't want the script parsing out stuff during a login. There's got to be an easier way. I could also just always remove the p:, then mount it from server2. But that adds an extra /delete every single time someone logs on, I'd prefer not to do that. I only want to /delete p: if p: is remote server1, not if it's remote server 2. Anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] windows /bat script question
This is definitely a kludgy way of doing it, but if I had that problem and wanted to solve it quickly, I would put a file named THISISSERVER1 on \\server1\projects\. This way you can do an if exist p:\THISISSERVER1 test. This is ugly, but it will work. -Marc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:51 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] windows /bat script question Subject isn't exactly samba, but samba people usually know a lot about windows bat scripting. Here's my problem: Currently our domain login script is doing this (among other things): ifmember.exe WINDOWS-DOMAIN\Projects if errorlevel 1 ( net use p: \\server1\projects ) This works fine. The problem is I'm moving the projects storage to a different server called server 2 (which is linux running samba 3, so it is samba related somewhat). The logic I need is: If p: is on server 1, remove the persistant share \\server1\projects, then if p: does not exist, create a persistant share p: \\server2\projects. Sounds easy enough, but I have no idea how to test if a share is on a particular remote server. I'm trying if exist \\server1\projects, but that doesn't work the way I want it as scripts seem to only understand the local drive letter names, not the remote names. I could try to spit out the contents of net use p: to a file, then parse out the remote name string, and compare that, but that seems like a hard way to accomplish it and I don't want the script parsing out stuff during a login. There's got to be an easier way. I could also just always remove the p:, then mount it from server2. But that adds an extra /delete every single time someone logs on, I'd prefer not to do that. I only want to /delete p: if p: is remote server1, not if it's remote server 2. Anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] windows /bat script question
Thanks Marc and Nat, I can't test for existence of anything on server1, since I'm actually moving the storage to server2, but I can do the following (in this case the testfile exists on some directory of server2): if not exist p:\testfile ( net use /delete p: ifmember.exe DOMAIN\Projects if errorlevel 1 net use p: \\server2\projects ) I still want to run the net use /delete p: command even though server1\projects is offline, just because I want to remove any persistant connections to server1, so the clients will stop asking for server1\projects in the future. The only downside here is if there is no connection to p: at all, the script still tries to remove p:, but that's no big deal since most profiles allready have p: persistantly mounted. Thanks for the help! Alex On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Kaplan, Marc wrote: This is definitely a kludgy way of doing it, but if I had that problem and wanted to solve it quickly, I would put a file named THISISSERVER1 on \\server1\projects\. This way you can do an if exist p:\THISISSERVER1 test. This is ugly, but it will work. -Marc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Lazarevich Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:51 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] windows /bat script question Subject isn't exactly samba, but samba people usually know a lot about windows bat scripting. Here's my problem: Currently our domain login script is doing this (among other things): ifmember.exe WINDOWS-DOMAIN\Projects if errorlevel 1 ( net use p: \\server1\projects ) This works fine. The problem is I'm moving the projects storage to a different server called server 2 (which is linux running samba 3, so it is samba related somewhat). The logic I need is: If p: is on server 1, remove the persistant share \\server1\projects, then if p: does not exist, create a persistant share p: \\server2\projects. Sounds easy enough, but I have no idea how to test if a share is on a particular remote server. I'm trying if exist \\server1\projects, but that doesn't work the way I want it as scripts seem to only understand the local drive letter names, not the remote names. I could try to spit out the contents of net use p: to a file, then parse out the remote name string, and compare that, but that seems like a hard way to accomplish it and I don't want the script parsing out stuff during a login. There's got to be an easier way. I could also just always remove the p:, then mount it from server2. But that adds an extra /delete every single time someone logs on, I'd prefer not to do that. I only want to /delete p: if p: is remote server1, not if it's remote server 2. Anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
