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#158199 - 2006-03-02 11:40 PM Labeling mapped drives
shaju_devassy Offline
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Hallo ,

I am using below mentioned command to map the users to their home folders.
USE J: "\\SERVER\Home folders$\school1\@userid"

Is it possible to let the user see it as "Your Home Folder" in Windows explorer. How to give a label to this mapped drive.

Thanks for you reply in anticipation.
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#158200 - 2006-03-02 11:43 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
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Yes, it is possible, however, due to drive mapping delays and the speed at which scripts run, the results are some times inconsistant.

I have worked around this issue with the following drive mapping/Renaming script. I use the "sleep" command to make the script wait long enough for drives to be mapped.

Code:
 
SLEEP 5
call "@ScriptDir\UDF\label.udf"
if ingroup ("ISGroup")	
    $RC = label(G:\,ISDept) ; Drive letter renaming function
    $RC = label(H:\,@UserID) ; Drive letter renaming function
    $RC = label(I:\,Share) ; Drive letter renaming function
    $RC = label(X:\,Application) ; Drive letter renaming function 
endif

exit


Code:
 
;FUNCTION	Label (version 1.1)
;
;AUTHOR		Lonkero
;
;ACTION		Read and Write Drive Label
;
;SYNTAX		Label("DRIVE","LABEL")
;
;PARAMETERS
;		DRIVE
;		 - drive to rename
;		LABEL
;		 - new name of the drive
;		   to read the label, leave out
;
;RETURNS
;		nothing on write.
;		on read the current label.
;		check @error for possible errors
;
;DEPENDENCIES
;		Minimum operating systems: Windows 2000/ME
;
;EXAMPLE
;		"Current Label for C: is:"
;		Label('c:')
;		? "Changing it..."
;		Label('c:\','my fancy new name')
;		if @error
;		 ? "ERROR OCCURED:" @serror
;		else
;		 ? "New Label for C: is:"
;		 Label('c:')
;		endif
;
;CODE
function label($_d,optional $_s)
 $=createobject("shell.application")
 if vartype($_s)
  $.namespace(left($_d,1)+":\").self.name=$_s
  exit @error
 else
  $label = $.namespace(left($_d,1)+":\").self.name
  exit @error
 endif
endfunction
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#158201 - 2006-03-03 02:36 AM Re: Labeling mapped drives
Radimus Moderator Offline
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also see my MapDrives() UDF
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#158202 - 2006-03-03 02:38 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
shaju_devassy Offline
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Registered: 2005-09-30
Posts: 22
Thanks very much for your reply,

Please let me where am i wrong.

i was trying the below mentioned but getting error at line 5.
ERROR : expected '>'!

USE P: "\\DC1\nis"
SLEEP 5
call "@ScriptDir\UDF\label.udf"
if ingroup ("Testgrp")
$RC = label(P:\,'Home Folder') ; Drive letter renaming function
endif

no changes made in label.udf

exit

Regards
Shaju
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#158203 - 2006-03-03 02:42 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
Mart Moderator Offline
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In this line:

Code:

label(P:\,'Home Folder')


The p:\ should be between single quotes.
Like the example in the UDF says


Quote:


Label('c:\','my fancy new name')

Edited by Mart (2006-03-03 02:43 PM)
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#158204 - 2006-03-03 02:57 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
shaju_devassy Offline
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Registered: 2005-09-30
Posts: 22
Fanstastic, that's great. Excellent it works.

Thanks very much.
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#158205 - 2006-03-03 04:30 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
shaju_devassy Offline
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i tried to apply this to a terminal server, it say's
ERROR : expected expression!
Script : C:\Documents and settings\Usernamexxx\KIXTART.KIX

Error on this line :- $RC = label('J:\','Home Folder')

My code goes so on.
-------------------
IF INGROUP("gr1")
MD "\\ts\home folders$\school1\@USERID"
ENDIF

IF INGROUP("gr1")
USE J: "\\ts\home folders$\school1\@userid"
ENDIF
SLEEP 5
call "@ScriptDir\UDF\label.udf"
IF INGROUP("DA")
$RC = label('J:\','Home Folder') ; Drive letter renaming function
ENDIF
Exit

Does this code work also on terminal server.
Help please,
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#158206 - 2006-03-03 05:16 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
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My guess is that the UDF is not loading.

Output "@ScriptDir\UDF\label.udf"

Is it the valid location of label.udf?

You could also try to just include the text of the UDF in your script.
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#158207 - 2006-03-03 05:44 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
Howard Bullock Offline
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Also you can check @error and @serror after the call to see if it succeeded.

call "fictitious.file"
@Serror


yields "The system cannot find the file specified."
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#158208 - 2006-03-03 06:53 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
shaju_devassy Offline
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Registered: 2005-09-30
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yes indeed it's not running the udf file. I belive @ScriptDir is the folder where kix32.exe exists.
label.udf is wel inside UDF Folder. If i give the full path then it works.
call "C:\WINDOWS\SYSVOL\sysvol\schl.local\scripts\UDF\label.udf"
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#158209 - 2006-03-03 07:05 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
Howard Bullock Offline
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What was being returned by @scriptdir?

I do not think you should be hard coding the full path as described in your last post.
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#158210 - 2006-03-03 08:42 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
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You can also create a sub directory called UDF and place the label.udf in that folder. This would allow the UDF to load.

Or you can take the advice of including the text from the UDF file in your .kix script (minus the CALL for the .UDF file if you do this).
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#158211 - 2006-03-03 08:47 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
shaju_devassy Offline
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Registered: 2005-09-30
Posts: 22
call "c:temp.txt"
@serror
@error
@scriptdir

all returns only this error

ERROR : expected expression!
Script : C:\Documents and settings\Usernamexxx\KIXTART.KIX
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#158212 - 2006-03-03 09:23 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
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You can't call a text file (unless it is a kixtart script with that extension, though not recommended)
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#158213 - 2006-03-03 09:24 PM Re: Labeling mapped drives
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KIXTART.KIX

Is the name of the default KiXtart script that KiX will look for if it can't find a specified script.

You need to specify the script to open / use.
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