Re: Vanishing Path Setting

From: Jack Seredyniecki (jack_seredyniecki_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:22:40 -0400

How many machines do you have to set it up for?

"Don Bouchard" <dpbouchard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:053d01c3799c$99a87900$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I understand that in WindowsXP, the path settings are
> written to the registry and are therefore permanent. How
> else does one set a path in a logon script file?????
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You're setting the path in the window that the login
> script is running.
> >Once the login script is done, it closes the window and
> there goes you PATH!
> >
> >"Don Bouchard" <dpbouchard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:0cdd01c37994$9b2c5380$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I should know better, but something is just not working
> >> right. Have Win2003 Server as a domain controller.
> Have
> >> a logon.bat file in sysvol\domain\scripts directory
> (know
> >> this works due to pause statements in it) In addition
> to
> >> defining net shares, I also want to add one of the
> >> network shares (T:\ - tools directory) to path
> variable.
> >> Code is as follows:
> >>
> >> rem net use statements above
> >> path
> >> pause
> >> path %path%;t:\
> >> pause
> >>
> >> exit
> >>
> >> After 1st pause, of course, path is std. win default.
> >>
> >> After 2nd pause, of course, it has additional directory
> >> added correctly.
> >>
> >> logon.bat file ends, and I then open a command prompt
> on
> >> same system and path is minus the t:\ variable! What
> am
> >> I doing wrong??? It seems like I've done this thousands
> >> of times just fine. Checked KB, FAQs, etc. and nothing
> >> there. Any help would be most appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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