Help making a batch file

[liveseytowers]

I've got to compile a list of PC's that have a certain file on the root of their C Drive. I've tried to do this via LANDesk but its not working too well and the LANDesk support forums recommend adding something into our logon script.

I have a file on some of our C drives called image version.txt

I need to add something to the script that will write the computer name to a text file if image version.txt exists.

Can anyone help? We are using .kix script if that makes a difference.

[ap0c]

I can knock up a vb6 exe that you can add to your logon bat if you like. all you need to do is make sure the exe is on a drive visible to all the other pc's. I do something similar here to log when users are using specific pc's in the building.

[liveseytowers]

I can knock up a vb6 exe that you can add to your logon bat if you like. all you need to do is make sure the exe is on a drive visible to all the other pc's. I do something similar here to log when users are using specific pc's in the building.

If you can that would be ace mate. Will it output to a text file in the same directory that the .exe is run from? The file that I need to locate is called image version.txt and is on the root of the C Drive.

[beerman]

can you not add a random reg key if that file exists? Landesk as far as I can remember can search by regkeys.

[ap0c]

there you go mate

searches for "image version.txt" and writes to "results.txt". "results.txt" must reside in the same dir as the exe or it wont work - also make sure that its writeable by the clients logging on

[liveseytowers]

there you go mate

searches for "image version.txt" and writes to "results.txt". "results.txt" must reside in the same dir as the exe or it wont work - also make sure that its writeable by the clients logging on

Cheers ap0c, what is it meant to do? I've scanned it for viruses (no offence but I didn't it compiling all my passwords etc lol) and ran it but nothing happens? I'm assuming I can just click on it without putting it my script?

I'm thinking about a reg entry as well as like beerman says LANDesk will report on it.

[ap0c]

put it on a shared folder on the network and then add the line to your logon batch file to run it, when some1 logs on to a machine it will run the exe and if the file is found you will see the hostname of the pc that ran it added to the text file.

You can test it locally by putting a file called "image version.txt" in the root of your C:\ and then run the exe, if you open up the results.txt you will see your pc name listed!

[liveseytowers]

put it on a shared folder on the network and then add the line to your logon batch file to run it, when some1 logs on to a machine it will run the exe and if the file is found you will see the hostname of the pc that ran it added to the text file.

You can test it locally by putting a file called "image version.txt" in the root of your C:\ and then run the exe, if you open up the results.txt you will see your pc name listed!

Cheers ap0c i though that's what i needed to do. When I run it it creates a text file called results however its blank. You any idea's?

[nitelife]

You could just use a simple windows batch file. Here's one that seems to do want you want.

@echo off
IF NOT EXIST "c:\image version.txt" GOTO DONOTHING
echo %COMPUTERNAME% >> test.txt

:DONOTHING

This checks for a file called image version.txt on c:\, if it exists then it appends the current computer name onto the end of the file test.txt. If test.txt doesn't exist then it will be created.

If you want to add this to your logon script add everything after the @echo off and change test.txt to the file of your choice in the location of your choice.

Note that it doesn't check for duplicates, but its simple and easy to use. That means that if a user logs on multiple times you will have multple entries in the file, but that's probably not going to happen that much.

[ap0c]

Cheers ap0c i though that's what i needed to do. When I run it it creates a text file called results however its blank. You any idea's?

Make sure that when you run it there is already a results.txt file in the same directory as the exe or it will not work, remember it will only add to the text file if the exe is run on a pc that has the "image version.txt" in the root of C:

[ap0c]

You could just use a simple windows batch file. Here's one that seems to do want you want.

@echo off
IF NOT EXIST "c:\image version.txt" GOTO DONOTHING
echo %COMPUTERNAME% >> test.txt

:DONOTHING

This checks for a file called image version.txt on c:\, if it exists then it appends the current computer name onto the end of the file test.txt. If test.txt doesn't exist then it will be created.

If you want to add this to your logon script add everything after the @echo off and change test.txt to the file of your choice in the location of your choice.

Note that it doesn't check for duplicates, but its simple and easy to use. That means that if a user logs on multiple times you will have multple entries in the file, but that's probably not going to happen that much.

alot simpler, cheers, my bat file powers are weak but this is a nice solution!

[nitelife]

alot simpler, cheers, my bat file powers are weak but this is a nice solution!

Your welcome mate. It took me a while to remember how to do it as well.

[liveseytowers]

You could just use a simple windows batch file. Here's one that seems to do want you want.

@echo off
IF NOT EXIST "c:\image version.txt" GOTO DONOTHING
echo %COMPUTERNAME% >> test.txt

:DONOTHING

This checks for a file called image version.txt on c:\, if it exists then it appends the current computer name onto the end of the file test.txt. If test.txt doesn't exist then it will be created.

If you want to add this to your logon script add everything after the @echo off and change test.txt to the file of your choice in the location of your choice.

Note that it doesn't check for duplicates, but its simple and easy to use. That means that if a user logs on multiple times you will have multple entries in the file, but that's probably not going to happen that much.

That is a nice solution mate, i'll give it a try this afternoon

[Mr.James]

@IF EXIST "C:\IMAGE VERSION.TXT" ECHO %COMPUTERNAME% >> X:\list.txt

Add that to your logon script replacing X:\ with a network drive that all users have write access too...