script commands

[chalkwellstu]

Hi all, anyone know where i can get a definitive list of all the scripting commands? or tell me how i write ....

 

if strusername = abc then filename = xyz

 

thanks

[mac_shinobi]

Hi all, anyone know where i can get a definitive list of all the scripting commands? or tell me how i write ....

 

if strusername = abc then filename = xyz

 

thanks

 

are you wanting the script to write a text file and name it with xyz???

In vbscript for the username side :

 

Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Dim strUser
strUser = WshNetwork.UserName

If strUse="Persons_UserName" Then
file = "xyz"  '<-- put your code here for the file name
End If

[chalkwellstu]

are you wanting the script to write a text file and name it with xyz???

In vbscript for the username side :

 

Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Dim strUser
strUser = WshNetwork.UserName

If strUse="Persons_UserName" Then
file = "xyz"  '<-- put your code here for the file name
End If

 

thanks Gecko thats the sort of thing i am looking for. i am basically writing a logoff script and want to split the results between staff and student.

[mac_shinobi]

how are you determining if they are a staff member or student member via there username ?

 

also what results do you want outputting to this text file and where do you want it stored and what are you going to call this log file ?

[chalkwellstu]

how are you determining if they are a staff member or student member via there username ?

 

also what results do you want outputting to this text file and where do you want it stored and what are you going to call this log file ?

 

i am playing with a script i got from this forum to write internet history to an htm file. i am trying to teach myself script by making alterations to the program. at present the script dumpsd all output into one folder on the server. i want to split between staff and pupils so thought if i could determine staff(as there is less of them) i could default the rest as students.

[mac_shinobi]

where is the script so I can have a look at it and also need some way of determing staff from students....

[chalkwellstu]

where is the script so I can have a look at it and also need some way of determing staff from students....

 

i haven't started on the split stuff yet but feel free to have a look at this.

Inetlog.zip

[mac_shinobi]

how are you going to determine from the username who is a member of staff and who is a student ?

 

Am presuming your students have 04, 05, 06, 07 etc somewhere in there username and staff don't ?

 

Or what exactly ?

[chalkwellstu]

not sure at the mo Gecko. all profile names are the student/staff names (legacy policy). as i am learning script as i go with this i am not aware of the all the posibles yet. first thoughts are .... if username = 'a' or 'b' or 'c' .... then goto staff else goto student

 

then each nest would peform the functions dumping into staff or student depending on what it had found.

 

as i said not quite sure how i am going to handle this yet .....

 

Stu

[mac_shinobi]

Need an example of a staff username and an example of a student username so we can decipher some obvious differences between the 2 types of usernames

[chalkwellstu]

Need an example of a staff username and an example of a student username so we can decipher some obvious differences between the 2 types of usernames

 

ok, students profiles are both christian and surname together e.g. johnsmith staff profiles are just the christian name e.g. john

 

thanks Gecko

[mac_shinobi]

ok, students profiles are both christian and surname together e.g. johnsmith staff profiles are just the christian name e.g. john

 

thanks Gecko

 

so aall staff user accounts only use there first name ( ie John ) for the username for logging in where as students have both the first name and last name ie

 

johnsmith or markjones

 

So to determine if it was a staff member we just need to match the firstname with the username ?

[timzim]

Have a look at Kixtart - http://www.kixtart.org/ - you could use a Kixtart logoff script to distinguish between users on basis of AD groups. Might solve your problem?

[chalkwellstu]

yeah thats right Gecko, and thanks timzim i'll give that a look as well.

 

Stu

[mac_shinobi]

Dim objUser, objComputer

ComputerName = "server_name" '<<-- alter this to your servers name

Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://" & ComputerName)

For each objUser in objComputer

wscript.echo objUser.name  '<-- this line

next

 

in the above code where I have commented this line

 

Is where you can change it from objUser.name to

 

objUser.Description

 

OR

 

objUser.FullName

 

as per the win32_UserAccount class :

 

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394507(VS.85).aspx

 

If you could test that and give me a few examples back of each outcome

 

ie what you get when you use fullname

 

what you get when you use description

 

etc

 

so that I know if it is returning any useful info ie if it always returns the word student or staff in description

 

If thats the case then that may be easier then trying to determine if there last name is outputted as a null string ie nothing to establish that its a staff member and if not then its a student.

 

you need to alter the first line to the name of your server ie

 

ComputerName = "MyServer" '<<-- alter this to your servers net bios name or i.p address

Edited January 29, 2008 by gecko

[chalkwellstu]

Dim objUser, objComputer

ComputerName = "server_name" '<<-- alter this to your servers name

Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://" & ComputerName)

For each objUser in objComputer

wscript.echo objUser.name  '<-- this line

next

 

in the above code where I have commented this line

 

Is where you can change it from objUser.name to

 

objUser.Description

 

OR

 

objUser.FullName

 

as per the win32_UserAccount class :

 

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394507(VS.85).aspx

 

If you could test that and give me a few examples back of each outcome

 

ie what you get when you use fullname

 

what you get when you use description

 

etc

 

so that I know if it is returning any useful info ie if it always returns the word student or staff in description

 

If thats the case then that may be easier then trying to determine if there last name is outputted as a null string ie nothing to establish that its a staff member and if not then its a student.

 

you need to alter the first line to the name of your server ie

 

ComputerName = "MyServer" '<<-- alter this to your servers net bios name or i.p address

 

 

Hey thanks Gecko i really appreciate your time here, i'll insert this lot and see what i get. can you trace out a script into a txt file?

[mac_shinobi]

yes you can output the data by using the fso :

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.CreateTextFile ("Users.txt", true)

Dim objUser, objComputer

ComputerName = "server_name" '<<-- alter this to your servers name

Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://" & ComputerName)

For each objUser in objComputer

ts.Write objUser.name  & vbcrlf '<-- this line

next

 

That way it creates a text file called users in the same place where your script is located, so when you have objUser.name, run the script, it will create the text file, hopefully with

 

first_name

second_name

third_name

 

etc

 

then copy that text file and call it name.txt

 

then change that one line to

 

objUser.FullName

 

and repeat so that you change the name of the file so it does not over write it and then change the line in the script again to

 

objUser.Description

 

Then post all 3 text files ( assuming that the output into the text file is as per above with one name on each line )

 

Then I can download them and have a look and finish the script off.

 

You are probably better off taking a few examples from each and pm'ing me with those and put comments in so I know which examples are students and which ones are staff members.

Edited January 29, 2008 by gecko