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vbscript read environment variable for if statment - 3/13/2005 10:16:54 PM

battousai

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hi,

i'm trying to write a script to map a printer when a user logs on depending on a environment variable called location with a value of room1

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if ("%location%" = room1) then
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
PrinterPath = "\\printsrv\room1printer"
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection PrinterPath
else
end if
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but this doesn't map any printers but doen't give me any error information to work with,

any help would be great...

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Re: vbscript read environment variable for if statment - 3/13/2005 11:02:03 PM

Zifter

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To retrieve a value of an environment variable, you'll need something like this:
HTH

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Re: vbscript read environment variable for if statment - 3/14/2005 3:50:27 AM

token

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Like Zifter suggested, you can use the SHELL object.

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Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set sh = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

location = sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%location%")

if (location = "room1") then
PrinterPath = "\\printsrv\room1printer"
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection PrinterPath
end if

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