How to set variables by user in login script

[alexs0628]

I'm trying to create a login batch file where I can set variables based on a user's login name. I tried using
set username="%login_name"
if login_name="(name here)" set console="(console number)"

But this command, which works in novell, does not seem to work on the Windows 2000 server.

What's the correct syntax to do this?

 

[Stevehewitt]

Um, what exactly are you trying to do? Surely you can simply group user for permissions and/or pop certian users in a OU and whack a Group Policy on it? Steve Hewitt
Systems Manager

 

[alexs0628]

I'm trying to create a logon script under Group Policy for the Domain. I need to set a console variable by user name for the production control software that we use. Right now, in Novell, the login script has these lines in it:

set log_name'"%login_name"
if login_name="alexs" set console="101"

and so forth for every user of the program. But I don't know the syntax to replicate these commands in the Windows 2000 logon file. I'm just trying to write a simple batch file to test the program, which is dos based. But, without the console environment being set, the program won't run.

 

[Stevehewitt]

Hmm. What is the "Console"? Did you say its a DOS based app? Can you not set it individually by the user logon script in Active Directory? I know that the NT username variable is %username%.
What exactly is the console? Is it a .bat file or .exe or something? Steve Hewitt
Systems Manager

 

[alexs0628]

It's an environment variable that you can assign to a computer which then ties into the features of the program. Each user is assigned a console number that relates to their password and features they are allowed to view in the program. For example, go to a command prompt of any computer, type in 'set console=300, then type in 'set' at the next prompt, and you will see console=300 as one of the variables for the PC's settings.

I tried using:

Set %username%="%login_name"
If login_name="alexs" set console=101

Did not work.

I tried:

%username%="alexs" set console=101

Did not work.