bdahlen@ZEPHYR.CAIR.DU.EDU (Robert L. Dahlen @ U. of Denver USA=) (02/09/90)
We have a multi-server network where I would like to have a drive mapped based on a previously set DOS environment variable. Is there any way to include DOS Environment variables in a login script? Say for instance: C> SET NET=KING C> MAP S1=%NET%/SYS:PUBLIC ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Dahlen - Director, Information Systems & Technology University of Denver - Denver, Colorado 80208 (303) 871-4385 INET:bdahlen@du.edu BITNET:bdahlen@ducair UUCP:ncar!dunike!bdahlen
LARRY@VM.NRC.CA (Larry Bradley) (02/09/90)
On Thu, 8 Feb 90 15:06:35 MDT Robert L. Dahlen @ U. of Denver USA= said: >I would like to have a drive >mapped based on a previously set DOS environment variable. > >Is there any way to include DOS Environment variables in a login >script? Say for instance: > >C> SET NET=KING > >C> MAP S1=%NET%/SYS:PUBLIC > The way I handle problems like that (the Novell login scripts won't let you do a lot of things) is to have the Novell login script exit to a DOS batch file (called autonet.bat). The login script does the things that it does best, and sets up some environment variables. Then the autonet.bat file does the rest, based on the settings of the envronment variables. We actually take this to some extremes ... the autonet.bat file invokes an autouser.bat file on exit, so the user has a place to do his thing ... the autonet.bat file is the equivalent of the system login script, while the autouser.bat is the equivalent to the user login script. One of the things that this type of thing is useful for is invoking or TSRs ... you can't invoke a TSR from a login script, otherwise you will trap the login.exe module in memory before your TSR, thus gobbling up even more of your precious 640K. *------------------------------------+----------------------* |Larry Bradley | LARRY@VM.NRC.CA | |Communications Manager | Larry.Bradley@NRC.CA | |National Research Council of Canada | LARRY@NRCVM01 | |Networks Branch | | |M60, Montreal Road | (613)993-0240 | |Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6 | FAX:(613) 954-2561 | *------------------------------------+----------------------*
CHAPMAN@NYUACF.BITNET (02/09/90)
I pass environment variables into the login script by using parameters
to the login command. E.g. if I have previously done
set location = lab1
then a user might login with the following command:
login fs1/username %location%
The command is executed from a DOS batch file.