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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Batch file for cross-network file copy? Jul 31^st, 2007 at 6:20pm	Print Post
	Any batch file experts here? I'd like to create one that would copy Sesame.ini to a number of workstations on my network. There are about 7 machines that all use identical sesame.ini files in their Start In directory (there would be more if all my user's monitors were the same size, as the only differences are the startup window height and width, someday, someday) and it would be nice if I could make a single edit to one of the files, say the one residing on the server, and then run a batch to copy it to each workstation. But I'm unsure how to reference the target destinations. My server is Miara-2000serve. The edited file is in its C:\Sesame\Miara\sesame.ini, which each user workstation sees as F:\Sesame\Miara\sesame.ini My users are all members of Windows' WORKGROUP. As examples, some of the target computer names are: Michellet Stefanie Jason John Miara-0kxrfudd2 <-- yeah, I have to change that, what a pain ScottL Jamiara Anyhow, is what I'm thinking of possible to do, or is there a better way? (Rhetorical question; I'm sure there's a better way, but it's a Monday for me and my brain isn't up to full speed yet. TIA!

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Batch file for cross-network file copy? Reply #1 - Jul 31^st, 2007 at 7:35pm	Print Post
	UNC paths?

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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Batch file for cross-network file copy? Reply #2 - Jul 31^st, 2007 at 7:42pm	Print Post
	Why not use the "-ini_file" startup option and have all the clients read the same sesame.ini file that resides on the server?

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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Batch file for cross-network file copy? Reply #3 - Aug 1^st, 2007 at 12:12pm	Print Post
	Quote: UNC paths? I'm unfamiliar with that term. Quote: Why not use the "-ini_file" startup option and have all the clients read the same sesame.ini file that resides on the server? See, I knew there was an easier way! Thanks! Does the -ini_file switch come before or after the -client switch? (Yesterday I spent some time mapping all my User's Sesame directories to drives. That's not needed now thanks to Mark's suggestion, but it may come in handy anyway.)

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Bob_Hansen Senior Member Members Offline WOW, They have the Internet on computers now! Posts: 1861 Location: Salem, NH Joined: Nov 24^th, 2002	Re: Batch file for cross-network file copy? Reply #4 - Aug 2^nd, 2007 at 3:17am	Print Post
	For Infinity..... Hmmmm, I thought I sent you info on server ini and UNC in an offline email some days ago? Did you not receive?
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Infinity Senior Member Members Offline Diagonally parked in a parallel dimension Posts: 1290 Location: Massachusetts Joined: May 27^th, 2005	Re: Batch file for cross-network file copy? Reply #5 - Aug 3^rd, 2007 at 2:50pm	Print Post
	Yes Bob, got it, thanks. But UNC went over my head then. I'm looking at the article on Wikipedia now. Mark's suggestion for specifying an .ini in the startup switch is working well; I have one .ini for my 800x600 users and one for my 1024x768 users. They're pretty much identical except for the program window height and width specifications, and the sizes of the command tree area. I also finally managed to set a static IP set for my server, so I no longer (at least, not so far) have the problem of the server client disconnecting when it changes. See you tomorrow!

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