Thanks,
Jon
Jon.Lundfelt@VECO.com

This may not be what you want but I also struggled to find some universal uniqueness to identify the laptop. In the end I reasoned that the user still needs me to get their system onto our network, I decided to put a unique file into the \Windows folder.

I'm putting in a file called _laptop_.txt and then testing for the file within Kix.

The code looks like...

code:

---

IF EXIST(%windir% + "\_Laptop_.txt") = 1
  $Laptop = "1"
ELSE
  $Laptop = "0"
ENDIF

---

Hope this helps. (I would also be interested to hear other better solutions.

Michael

[ 08 September 2001: Message edited by: Ashpoint ]

We have eventually decided to use WINBIOS (an IBM bios display tool)
when you use the /G option it displays the full nine yards of BIOS information, one of the fields (can remember which one - I am at home) is desktop, laptop, notebook etc - this is assuming that the manufacturer took the trouble to set this, but to our surprise - this works with all of our workstations.

However, we already happened to be running winbios on each workstation, so it was no trouble to get this extra piece of info.

FFT
Mark

$PCMICANT = READVALUE("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pcmcia","Start")
$PCMCIA9X0 = ExistKey("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\PCMCIA\0000")
$PCMCIA9X1 = ExistKey("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\PCMCIA\0001")

IF @INWIN=1 AND $PCMICANT = 0
GOSUB LAPTOPNT
ENDIF

IF @INWIN=2 AND $PCMCIA9X0 = 0 OR $PCMCIA9X1 = 0
GOSUB LAPTOP9X
ENDIF

:END
EXIT

:LAPTOPNT
?"THIS IS A NT/2000 LAPTOP"
SLEEP (10)
RETURN

:LAPTOP9X
?"THIS IS A 9X LAPTOP"
SLEEP (10)
RETURN