Re: Identify user in batch file

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Hi Lanwrench,

I agree with you and was going to suggest it, until I read further... It
seems he wants to keep the My Documents on his local systems and back them up
to the server. That's why I didn't suggest what you said.

Mitch
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MDG, MCSA


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

>
>
> In news:dckm5o$kbf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Brian McMahon <brianm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to create a login script, which will copy the contents of the
> > user's workstation "my documents" folder to their user folder on the
> > server.
>
> Hmmm - I'd just use folder redirection for My Documents. Do this via group
> policy for the XP/2k users; and for Win98, manually point My Documents to
> the user's home directory.
> >
> > This will be in the login script, so an automatic backup is taken each
> > login. The server gets backed up to tape each evening.
> >
> > In order to make my life easy and use a single script for all users,
>
> The above will make this a *lot* easier in general.
>
>
> > I want to incorporate a variable which will collect the current
> > user's login name, in order that the correct user directory on the
> > server is used, plus I want to see if there is anyway of
> > automatically picking up the current users "my documents" folder.
> >
> > The workstatiosn are a mix of XP Pro and Win98. The Win98
> > workstations will only be phased out later in the year.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brian
>
>
>
.

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