Problems with Xcopy in startup script

S

Slingshotz

This is driving me nuts and I have not been able to find any answers
on any user group. This is a basic batch file script that I am
deploying through group policy in the startup script to copy templates
from the server to the local machine. I'm deploying it during the
startup so that every computer gets it, regardless of who logs in.

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if NOT exist "C:\Templates" md "C:\Templates"
pushd "\\servername\Templates\"
xcopy *.dot C:\Templates /Y /D
popd
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The script works perfectly when run by itself, but during the startup
script when a computer starts up it keeps saying that *.dot is not
found.

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File not found - *.dot
0 File(s) copied
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When I replace the xcopy with a regular copy command, it works during
startup but I need to only copy the files when there are newer
templates on the server and thus have to use xcopy.

I have confirmed that the computer has permisisons to copy from the
server share (it obviously works as the copy command works). I have
also tried it without the pushd commands to no avail, i.e.

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if NOT exist "C:\Templates" md "C:\Templates"
xcopy \\servername\Templates\*.dot C:\Templates /Y /D
=========================

The error message is the same, it says file not found. And I have
confirmed that xcopy is working on the target machine. Like I said,
it works fine on it's own, but when deployed through group policy it
won't copy the files (but it makes the folder ok).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I've burnt many hours
trying to figure out this silly little problem.
 
B

+Bob+

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I've burnt many hours
trying to figure out this silly little problem.

This might be entirely too basic, but have you set the location (cd
\someplace) in the stream ?
 

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