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How do I write a batch file for sage using terminal services

Asked by: choy77

Hi, I have just setup a terminal server. the main purpose of it is to allow users, some from different companies to access sage accounts. However when you set up the company file, as it is terminal services there is only one company file, which means that all users can see each others companies when they go to log in to Sage 2009.  I have contacted tech support and their knowledge stops pretty much at installation of Sage etc, which is already done.

The company file consists of company numbers so company one should only be able to see company one data etc etc

They did suggest writing a batch file so that when each user logs on they can only see their own company data..

Anybody got any suggestions?

Thanks again.


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Answers

 

by: seriousnickPosted on 2009-11-02 at 11:24:53ID: 25722715

Hi choy77

Yes you can do this using logon scripts provided only one user logs on at a time.
We have done this (it may be possible to do this with more than one user but I cannot be sure).

You would set up different "company" files for each user with details for only the company/companies you wanted each user to have.

For example, if logon user "Fred" only should have access to COMPANY1, and the path for such data was  X:\Accounts\COMPANY1
you would edit the COMPANY file for that user to read as the path mentioned (i.e.     X:\Accounts\COMPANY1).

The logon script could be a vbs file or a batch file, but would need to delete the existing local COMPANY file (default location on server  is  C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts and has no extension), then copy over another COMPANY file from the "Fred" directory.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers

Nick

 

by: choy77Posted on 2009-11-02 at 12:38:24ID: 25723455

Hi Nick,

am pretty sure that there will be more than one user logging on at a time.

is it possible to do it like this?

cheers nick,

chris

 

by: seriousnickPosted on 2009-11-02 at 15:44:57ID: 25724974

Chris

I have not actually tried with concurrent users, but should be able to test the idea in the next 24 hours if you can bear with me.
In theory it should work.
Meantime you may well get some other responses by then.
I will report back when tested.
Cheers

Nick

 

by: choy77Posted on 2009-11-03 at 01:28:18ID: 25727229

Nick thanks....

That would be a great help!!  I really could do with knowing if its possible so i'll leave it in your capable hands!

Thanks again,
Speak soon.
Chris

 

by: choy77Posted on 2009-11-04 at 03:37:18ID: 25738282

Hi Nick,

any more on this solution yet?

Cheers

Chris

 

by: seriousnickPosted on 2009-11-09 at 09:56:32ID: 25778278

Hi Chris

I am sorry I have not been able to test this yet.
I may get a chance later this week.

Cheers

Nick

 

by: choy77Posted on 2009-11-09 at 10:15:06ID: 25778456

no worries thanks for the update

Cheers
Chris

 

by: seriousnickPosted on 2009-11-23 at 09:52:07ID: 25889780

Chris - really sorry but I have not had the opportuntiy to test.

However you may be able to test yourself.

What we did was create sub directories within the program data path
i.e. in  C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts\  
we created a sub dir for each user,
e.g. C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts\jim,  C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts\dave    etc
and within each sub dir, create a new COMPANY file with the relevant paths to each Sage company.
(Your local path may be different to that above, also your path to Sage Program may be different in the code).

Then using the code below, create a VBS file as a logon script for each user.
(In the example below, save the code as jim.vbs).

What this does, is delete the current COMPANY file and replace it with each users own COMPANY file.

I would reiterate that I am unsure whether this would work for mutli logins, although in theory it should.

NB Please make sure you keep a copy of the original COMPANY file in case you run into issues.

If I can get to test I will let you know but in the meantime hopefully this will help.

Cheers

Nick

Dim oFSO
Dim WshShell
 
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
oFSO.DeleteFile "C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts\COMPANY"
oFSO.CopyFile "C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts\jim\COMPANY", "C:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts\COMPANY" 
 
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Command = """C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sage SBD\SBDDesktop.exe"" {6726E8CA-D670-4bda-AA0E-1506A9B74A50}"
oShell.Run Command

                                              
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by: seriousnickPosted on 2009-11-23 at 09:56:07ID: 25889811

I would also just add that we used the above system on a local PC that several users had access to.
So that for each user the correct companies were shown in Sage (as they differed for each user).
We did not use on on a TS server.
Cheers

Nick

 

by: choy77Posted on 2009-12-08 at 15:47:38ID: 26003813

Hi, this is not abandonded. Not had chance to do yet Cheers

 

by: choy77Posted on 2010-02-23 at 13:56:59ID: 31648925

Partially tested. on XP machine, yet to test on server

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