Multiple Values In Case KixStart Statement

[6Foot2]

We have a KixStart script which allocates printers based on station name. For the Library we have:

 

CASE LEFT(@WKSTA, 3) = "lib"

AddPrinterConnection ("\\Server\Library")

SetDefaultPrinter ("\\Server\Library")

 

This works very well. However I have a need to allocate the same printer to multiple stations:

 

CASE LEFT(@WKSTA, 5) = "eng01","eng02","eng03"

AddPrinterConnection ("\\Server\English")

SetDefaultPrinter ("\\Server\English")

 

To achieve the same result I currently have to use:

 

CASE LEFT(@WKSTA, 5) = "eng01"

AddPrinterConnection ("\\Server\English")

SetDefaultPrinter ("\\Server\English")

 

CASE LEFT(@WKSTA, 5) = "eng02"

AddPrinterConnection ("\\Server\English")

SetDefaultPrinter ("\\Server\English")

 

CASE LEFT(@WKSTA, 5) = "eng03"

AddPrinterConnection ("\\Server\English")

SetDefaultPrinter ("\\Server\English")

 

I am beginning to think that my KixStart syntax is incorrect. Can anyone suggest what the correct syntax should be?

 

BTW: I know I could use:

 

CASE LEFT(@WKSTA, 3) = "eng"

AddPrinterConnection ("\\Server\Library")

SetDefaultPrinter ("\\Server\Library")

 

but not all of the stations with similar names always get pointed to the same printer (eg: Eng04 may want to use Science and Admin printers for reasons of proximity to the printer)

 

TIA.

[srochford]

You really want to make sure that the machine names have unique stems which are the same length (whether that's 3 or 5 or whatever characters) and then you can do something like:

$stem=LEFT(@WKSTA, 5)
select
 case $stem="ENG01" or $room="ENG02"
  $printer="\\Server\English"
 case $stem="LIBRA"
  $printer="\\server2\library"
 case $stem="MATH0" or $room="MATH2"
  $printer="\\server\maths"
endselect

AddPrinterConnection ($printer)
SetDefaultPrinter ($printer)

If you can't do that, can you find the OU the machines are in and use that as your identifier to determine the printer?

[6Foot2]

You really want to make sure that the machine names have unique stems....

 

Station names are not wholly within my gift [Our network is part of a Consortium and for various reasons I am not able to name stations as I would like at the moment. That will change later. For now I have to suffer the limitations of the current naming scheme]

 

If you can't do that, can you find the OU the machines are in and use that as your identifier to determine the printer?

 

I am using the OU to determine which printers Students get which is not always the printers Staff require in the same rooms: Our MFL department want to print back to their office when they logon but they also want students to print to the classroom based stations.

 

I will look at your coding suggestion: Perhaps I can adapt my script around the method described by you in your post.