Environmental Variables

[K1ng]

Hello,

I'm currently doing some programming on a 2000+ user NT network. I'm using REXX to create a script that updates user profile paths and script paths automatically based on a current users setup.

With each user, there are four things to change.
- The Profile Path
- The Script Path
- Home Directory
- Group memberships

The program is working great and is almost all working, I say almost because I have a slight problem.

Users profile path is something like this...

\\SERVER\PROFILES\PREP\BUSINESS_3.1

Although, as a backup we are trying to set the profile path to...

%LOGONSERVER%\PROFILES\PREP\BUSINESS_3.1

But anytime I try and pass the environmental variable to the following DOS command...

NET USER <username> /DOMAIN PROFILEPATH:<profile path>

I get an error &quot;you enterred an invalid value for the /profilepath option&quot;.

The users home directory is set to...

G:\%USERNAME%

And this works fine.

I have checked the environmental variable exists and that the command works when typed manually into dos so does anyone know whats wrong here?

Thanks in advance for any help.
K1ng

 

[akerray]

Here's an example of how I trap the username and then use it in a command.

username = value('username',,'ENVIRONMENT')
cmd = 'cd /D C:\Documents and Settings\' || username || '\Favorites\'
cmd

I'm unsure how to get the servername.

 

[Guest_imported]

The only problem with that is that I dont want my username to be in the script, if I use: -

username = value('username',,'ENVIRONMENT')

Then the variable 'username' becomes equal to the current %username% which is mine, so everyone in the company would then be logging on to MY logon drive. What I want is a way to pass the actuall string: -

%USERNAME%

To the command and not the contents of the environmental variable.

K1ng