re: Batch File Map XP to Win2k Works, Win2k to XP Doesnt
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 10:51 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by R.B.Steinbach
(10 messages posted)
Thanx for your input. Perhaps the info from M$ made it confusing. The issue is
that I have always been able to use a batch file to map drives on other network PCs
here, until the new XP box. And, the XP box works fine to map other PCs, it just
won't get mapped from them... Silly. The whole idea of command line utilities is
to automate these kinds of things, and there **should** be no reason for it to suddenly
stop. Yeah, I could use a key(or mouse)-logger, but I'm hoping for a more straightforward
approach, or definitive reason why the "old" way has been disabled...
On Tuesday, January 2, 2007 at 11:47 pm, geek9pm wrote:
>No, I do not have a real answer. So just ignore this if you do not have the rime.
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> I can barely understand what you are trying to do. It seems that doing a manual
>drive map is OK, but you can not do it in a batch on the win 2K box. You mentioned
>a time out issue. That may be the crux of the matter. That kind of things does happen
>in other communications functions. The manual method works, the automatic does
not.
>Or the other way, the auto works and the manual does not. It is the timing. Is the
>a procedure to make the batch file wait for a network resource? Or why not just
do
>the whole thing inside of .NET or Visual Basic? You can have timing delays and error
>recovery in Visual Basic that you can not easily do in a batch file.
>Then there is the Keyboard Macro method. You can write a macro that does the keystrokes
>just like a human. This macro can be called at start up and behaves like a human
>logging into the network. These keyboard macro programs are from third parties and
>for what you are doing can replace a batch file. One such is KeyText, which
>is a overkill for this, but it does the job.
>No, I do not work for them, just like the product:
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>http://www.mjmsoft.com/
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