How to change URL in the address bar to an client side environment variable?
Hello all.
I am building a "poor man's sms" distribution web-page. In practise, software installation packages are replicated to a few servers in a few cities and I would like to make one general page, where all available software distributions are available for users (links to MSI installer scripts or batch files).
I have implemented a %SMSDP% variable in the LOGON script so that each compter gets the closest (in the LAN) distribution server address to the SMSDP environment variable. I have tested that using %SMSDP% in the Internet Explorer will bring me to the local distribution server, but adding that functionality into html makes me grazy. It looks that no matter how I write %SMSDP% into a href link it will be never translated into correct environment variable.
So, is there some way to take "dos" environment variable into code (html, php or java), use it in as a URL and then kick in installer from the web browser (IE 6 or 7).
I am building a "poor man's sms" distribution web-page. In practise, software installation packages are replicated to a few servers in a few cities and I would like to make one general page, where all available software distributions are available for users (links to MSI installer scripts or batch files).
I have implemented a %SMSDP% variable in the LOGON script so that each compter gets the closest (in the LAN) distribution server address to the SMSDP environment variable. I have tested that using %SMSDP% in the Internet Explorer will bring me to the local distribution server, but adding that functionality into html makes me grazy. It looks that no matter how I write %SMSDP% into a href link it will be never translated into correct environment variable.
So, is there some way to take "dos" environment variable into code (html, php or java), use it in as a URL and then kick in installer from the web browser (IE 6 or 7).
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B is grading for Bad (it would be G for Good :)
Why do you grade if you did not have understood the details? If you had problems I would have provide to you support.
In EE is B labeled as Good but I like to get As for my efforts.
The grading is for you the only way to say ThankYou and for me it is a points multiplier.
Why do you grade if you did not have understood the details? If you had problems I would have provide to you support.
In EE is B labeled as Good but I like to get As for my efforts.
The grading is for you the only way to say ThankYou and for me it is a points multiplier.
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Hmm .. did I make mistake? Sorry! I meant good, but maybe accidently pressed B. How I can fix that?
Anyhow, I found Intralaunch as one solution and also if you generate web page with Frontpage it can execute executables ... as well as using XML (in a few HP driver CDs they use similar setting).
Anyhow, I found Intralaunch as one solution and also if you generate web page with Frontpage it can execute executables ... as well as using XML (in a few HP driver CDs they use similar setting).
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I can not find way to fix the problem, maybe you can contact admin and ask them to change grading to Good. Your answer was perfect and I stopped trying to use wrong approach. After a few days I found several other ways to overcome the problem and at this moment I am already implementing "poor man's sms".
Once again, sorry about the "B" which supposed to be "G".
Once again, sorry about the "B" which supposed to be "G".
Mikki-Hiiri,
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Grade changed to an A.
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Please review our grading tips at https://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp#hi97. Technically speaking, A=Excellent, B=Good, and C=Average. In practice, however, A is a complete answer and B is an almost complete answer. C are incomplete answers, but experts should be given a chance to add to their comments first. (The grading tips explain it better.)
Grade changed to an A.
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Thank you PenguinMod.
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I guess this is something to do what "Good" means in some countries. In Finland "Good" really means "well done = meet expectations", but as an example in USA "good" seem to mean something like "not so well done". In Finland "Excellent" means "exceeds expectations". Lesson learned. Thank you for your help.
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a href would like something like this: OpenOffice
and then in logon script with KIX32 I set: SET "SMSDP=\\CITY1DP1\SMS-DP$"