Re: Client Access for Win95

You could write a Visual Basic program to replace STARTPCS.BAT.

or there is a shareware product called WinBatch that I could email you if
you like... 

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> From: Tom McArthur <ThomasMcA@usa.net>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Client Access for Win95
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 1997 7:15 PM
> 
> Using Client Access for Win95, is there a way to execute 
> (automatically, at the time the connection is made) a batch file that 
> lives in a Shared Folder?
> 
> As a PC administrator, using the old PC Support, I was able to use 
> the Shared Folders (I: Drive) as a network drive and a pseudo-backup 
> medium. 
> 
> Since every PC executed STARTPCS.BAT, it was easy to add a CALL to a 
> generic batch file that lived on the I: Drive. This batch file backed 
> up their system files (INIs, CONFIG.SYS, etc.) once a day; it also 
> allowed me to do remote installs, updates, file copies, etc.
> 
> If a remote user had a problem w/ a Lotus spreadsheet or a 
> WordPerfect document, I could edit the generic batch file to copy the 
> file from their hard drive to the I: Drive. I could then open the 
> file myself, and walk them through their problem/question.
> 
> If they had a problem w/ Windoze, I could look at the backup of their 
> configuration files to understand their setup, or even to see the 
> problem right away by looking at their backed up CONFIG.SYS & 
> AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
> 
> The beauty of this was that everything was maintainable here at the 
> corporate location. They couldn't remove the CALL to the generic 
> batch file because a master copy of STARTPCS was maintained on the I: 
> Drive. I could modify/tweak the process easily because the batch file 
> lived on the I: Drive.
> 
> Is there any way to do this? 
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tom
> ***************************************************
> Tom McArthur
> E-Mail: ThomasMcA@usa.net
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