Getting OS from a script

[spaceuk]

I need to get a list of what OS users have, is there a way to get this information using a login script and send it to a file?

I want to do this through a script because we arent using the zen inventory procedure

any help would be much appreciated

 

[BrianH1]

We've used regedit commands run via the login script to write the computer name from the registry to a text file, you could do the same but write the name to a text file based on the OS? e.g. if %OS = "WINNT" then . . .

You can't differenciate between NT 4 and Win2k unless you look at the version, Win2k is WINNT 5 and above.

Hope this is useful...

 

[spaceuk]

thanx for your help chunk... could you tell me how you write something to a text file im only a beginner at scripting... an example would be great if you wouldnt mind.. thanx again for your help

 

[BrianH1]

Hi,

Here's what we did...

Create a folder somewhere, ours is on VOL1 and give the users rights (RWCM) and put a space restriction on it.

In there, we put regedit (in case it's not on the PCs) and a batch file. The batch file goes like:

START /w REGEDIT /e %temp%.\tmp.txt HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName

MAP ROOT H:=SERVERNAME\VOL1:\LOGS

TYPE %temp%\TMP.TXT >>h:\COMP-NAME.TXT

EXIT

This pipes out the key specified to tmp.txt, then this is written up to the server, appended to a file called COMP-NAME.TXT

Hope this helps . . .

 

[BrianH1]

Sorry, forgot, we call the batch file from the login script then, just #H:\COMPUTERNAME.BAT or whatever you call the file. The map root h:=. . . . that i put in the batch file above needs to be in the script...

 

[spaceuk]

Im going to give it a go now... thanks for all your help chunk