WScript.Shell Problems

yu217171 · May 28, 2004

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to run the command "net send message" from the command prompt from a webpage, on the CLIENT side. This is for an intranet application and everyone is running IE.

Code:

set WShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WShell.Run netSendString

The error I'm receiving is "Object Required: 'WScript'". Anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong?

Keith

EBGreen · May 28, 2004

I don't believe that the security for IE will allow you to do this in a web page. It should work as a HTA due to the lowered security.

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tsuji · May 28, 2004

Hello yu217171,

It runs only if IE with lowered security zone setting. But, it is understood as well that the basic settings like pid wscript.shell registered on client side, script-enabling etc must be done beforehand.

Try this out as a sample.

Code:

<html>
<head><title>testing wscript.shell</title>
<script language="vbscript">
sub bol()
	set wshshell=createobject("wscript.shell")
	wshshell.run "c:\windows\winipcfg"
	set wshshell=nothing
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body onload="bol()">
Testing wscript.shell run client-side
</body>
</html>

regards -tsuji

yu217171 · May 28, 2004

Thanks Tsuji,

I did indeed get my script to work. I just had to enable Unsigned ActiveX interaction in IE. Thanks a lot.

Keith

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