Hi everybody,

I'm a newbie with scripting.
Does somebody have a script that i can run from an Admin Workstation
(because of the credentials) that has the following features:

- Script has to distribute a file accross all Client computers on the
network (not the servers)
- Script has to copy the file in a specific location, if the location isn't
there than check for another location.
- When the script has copied the file to a machine it may not run again for
that machine only when the file/registry key isn't there.

I hope some one can help me.

Greetzz,
remco

Here is a simple way of doing this:

1: Create a text file with all the computer names in it that you want to
transfer the file to such as this

-->8 copy below here
Computer1
Computer2
Computer3
-->8 copy abover here

2: Here is the script, run it from the same directory that the text file
with the computer names is in
-->8 copy below here
@ECHO OFF
FOR /F %%a in (computers.txt) do (
If exist \\%%a\C$\Location2 SET TARGET=\\%%a\C$\Location2
If exist \\%%a\C$\Location1 SET TARGET=\\%%a\C$\Location1
IF NOT EXIST %LOCATION%\file1.txt COPY C:\file1.txt %TARGET%
)
-->8copy above here

I hope you can work out how this works.

Cheers,
Jeremy.





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There are a few details missing...

put in C:\location1, but if that folder does not exist put in C:\location2?
but what if that folder does not exist either?

I have such scripts, but they either use a target folder that must always
exist, or they create it as needed.

isn't there on what machine, your admin workstation or the client?

Our scripts will typically do the copy in such a way that the copy will be
done only if the file being copied is newer. If you keep track of which
systems have received the file, that does not necessarily mean that the file
is still there.

as to workstations rather than servers, we base this on the naming
convention, and use only those names produced by the NET VIEW command that
have the workstation prefix associated with our site. This will, of course,
only affect those machines that have been on for the last 10 minutes or so.

/Al

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