I would like to decrease login time for these users by running a different script.

I was thinking of using IP address to detect the users. It turn out to be a failure as some times the notebooks can have 2 IP addresses (1 from the Shiva VPN and 1 from office LAN).

Is there a way I can detect the status of these users?

HTH,

- Kent

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@RAS, the users are dialling up the NT server. My users are using their own ISP dialup (which is free) and VPN tunnel across the Internet to my Shiva VPN gateway.

I have found that @ipaddressX can be used to check IP address. A Win 9x station can have 4 IP address. Change X accordingly from 0 to 3. I am currently trying to figure out the program logic.

Any comments, suggestions or alternative methods are most welcome

First I tried to use @RAS but it can't determine if a user is coming into the network via a vpn connection to their ISP.

Then I thought well i'll just check the value of their IP address using @IPADDRESS. The problem with this is that if the user still has their pcmcia card in the laptop and they don't have a separate hardware profile or they have started their laptop in the "network" profile, @IPADDRESS will find the IP Address of the NIC instead of the PPP Adapter.

What I ended up doing which I feel is the definitive way to determine if they are networked or dialing in is to redirect the output of WINIPCFG to a file, parse it until the line PPP Adapter is found, then continue parsing until the line IP Address is found. If it is 0.0.0.0 then they are local.

It is a little klugy but it works.

Hope this helps

This article from Microsoft may help.

How to Determine Whether a Client Is Connected by RAS or LAN
Article ID: Q173530 http://support.microsoft.com

NTDOC...

Following cmarti's example, I am checking on @IPADDR1. If the subnet matches that issued by the VPN gateway, the shorter script is executed.

I am trying to keep the code lean, no point incurring more overhead. Right?

regards

:win95
$win95key = READVALUE("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Shiva Corp.\Shiva VPN Client\", "appLoaded")
IF $win95key = 1
GOTO QUESTION

:win2000
$win2000key = READVALUE("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Shiva Corp.\Shiva VPN Client\", "domaintunnelup")
IF $win2000key = 0
GOTO QUESTION

The only trap is that the uses must log off via the File | exit and log off otherwise if they just "x" out, the registry value stays up and when they log onto the LAN they are seen as remote.

Users seem to like the time we save over the VPN, and know how to log off properly now

regards