Display windows directory on remote computer

[mark01]

I'd like to have an app display the windows directory on a remote computer. For example, I need to find the windows directory of a computer named WS1.
It should return..

WINDOWS -or-
WINNT

Any ideas?

thanks

 

[ArtieChoke]

If the user of the program has domain admin privs, you can access the remote computer using:

\\ws1\c$\...

and use the dir command to test for those directories. You can also have it iterate over just the directories in the c: drive.

Otherwise, you'll need a share on the c: drive.

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[mark01]

Well, I have a whole bunch of workstations. Each have different windows directories.

c:\winxp
c:\windowsxp
c:\windows
c:\winxp
etc

It would be too much to try and say:
If winxp then...

On the dos prompt, you can use %windir%, and it will give you c:\windows.

That is kind of what I want to use, but i would like to use it to remotely find out their windows directory.

 

[Harlequin007]

Mark

This may be a long winded way of doing it but I'm in the throws of developing a system analyser for my company and I am getting it to run the SET command at the DOS prompt.

I doubt it's many steps from there to getting the SET output to a file and having that file e-mailed to you.

Hope I was of some help.


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[vanvb]

You'll need to be an administrator on the other machine, but I would just display the contents of the registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PathName

Hope that helps!