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#188 - 1999-07-08 07:05 AM Multiple startup configurations
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Our notebooks work with 2 configurations ( with and without network ).
With network is when working at a dockingstation in office and without network is working at home.
When working at home it is possible to call in with a modem, but when calling in you are not allowed to work on the whole network. This is only to work on specific shares.

The settings for the configs are discribed in the config.sys ( Windows startup menu ).

Is it possible for Kixtart reconise which config windows started with in order to connect to the granted shares.

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#189 - 1999-07-08 09:39 AM Re: Multiple startup configurations
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I want to know too. Our business has a similar problem where we don't want dialin users to run certain parts of the script since it runs so slowly.

We do want them to run the other parts when they bring their laptops in and connect to the network directly.

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#190 - 1999-07-08 10:17 AM Re: Multiple startup configurations
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Try using the @RAS Macro !!

example:
if @RAS > 0

? "RAS Connection"

Else

? "No RAS connection"

EnfIf

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Lon Geefshuysen,
www.xs4all.nl/~longeef/NT/KiXtart
lon_geefshuysen@essentium.com


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#191 - 1999-07-09 02:16 AM Re: Multiple startup configurations
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Thank you Lon,

But because we work with a Shiva connection the login in is seen as a local login.

Therefor I want kixtart to read the windows startup configuration chosen in at the startup menu.

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#192 - 1999-07-12 06:37 AM Re: Multiple startup configurations
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Are these laptops running Windows95?

If they are, the following trick worked for me. Put a shortcut in startup that uses winset.exe to create an environment-variable. For instance RAS=YES. If someone uses ras he first starts up his pc and startup gets executed so the environmentvariable is present. When logging on to the network on the other hand the logonscript is run first so the variable isn't present yet.

The downside to this is that when you use close all programs and log on as another user the logonscript will mistakenly think there is a ras connection because the environment variable is still there.

Good Luck
Rene

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#193 - 1999-07-12 06:51 AM Re: Multiple startup configurations
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In Windows NT you could use almost the same principle. You could use kix32.exe and a script in startup to set the environment variable using the set command.

Good Luck
Rene

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#194 - 1999-07-12 02:05 PM Re: Multiple startup configurations
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You could also set the script to kick out when it detects an IP address or range of addresses.

Use the @IPADDRESS macro....

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