Differentiate between workstion or server in script

[inssain96]

Does any one have a clever way of telling the difference between Workstation and Server 4.0 in a batch script?

In the past I've used:

ver |find "NT" >null
if not errorlevel 1 goto blah

this has worked great, until the recent M$ vulnerability that has both patches for Wks and Srv...

TIA

-Alex

 

[Shurik]

you can use kixtart , it has some functions for that ,

or , much easier way is to see the OS variable at the set command ...

Alex,
MCP 2000

 

[inssain96]

Unfortunately NT's OS variable is "Windows_NT" for both versions.

Kixtart would work, but for the few times a year we need to push a script it may not be worth it.

Instead...
I'm checking if the machine is NT, if it is then I'm having the machine run "gettype.exe" from the 2000 ResKit. It comes back with errorlevel 1-8 depending on OS, NT and 2000.

-Alex

 

[Shurik]

you can also use the regini.exe from the r.k. to get this info from the registry ...

Alex,
MCP 2000