Batch file question

[Skywanderer]

I have written a batch file that deletes all mapped drives and then maps them. I wrote and placed this in the startup group to get around a disconnected network drive issue I was having. This is deployed on quite a few systems, and thus I don't want the end use to have to interact with it at all. At one point on some of the deletions, a message comes up that says there is an open connection on the drive it is trying to delete, do I want to close it. If I type y and hit enter, it closes it, however if I do nothing the batch file just hangs. Is there anyway to automate it, so that if the question appears, which it only does intermitently, it automatically answers yes?

 

[MustISO]

Are you using "net use". Not sure what "Persistent" does but maybe it will answer the question automatically.


NET USE
[devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
[/USER:[domainname\]username]
[/USER:[dotted domain name\]username]
[/USER:[username@dotted domain name]
[/SMARTCARD]
[/SAVECRED]
[[/DELETE] | [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]]

NET USE {devicename | *} [password | *] /HOME

NET USE [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]

 

[Skywanderer]

I am using the "net use" command. As I know it, the persistent modifier is used to determine whether the connection made by the net use command will exist upon the next login. It doesn't control prompts during the running of the batch file.

 

[Skywanderer]

Looks like I was able to answer my own question. I made a guess and added a modifier of /y to the end of the command string. Then when ever a prompt occurs from that command, it automatically answers yes to the prompt.

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: MustISO
Are you using "net use". Not sure what "Persistent" does but maybe it will answer the question automatically.


NET USE
[devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
[/USER:[domainname\]username]
[/USER:[dotted domain name\]username]
[/USER:[username@dotted domain name]
[/SMARTCARD]
[/SAVECRED]
[[/DELETE] | [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]]

NET USE {devicename | *} [password | *] /HOME

NET USE [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]

"persistent:yes" just tells it to remap every time the computer is started...I believe