Question for Vera

[Gene Bryan]

I have 25 users on a Windows 2000 enviroment, 3 locations
all on the same domain. We utilize Terminal Services for
the 2 remote locations to access our business system (a
dos base platform, QP4) we are a retail business. When we
run our end of day procedure the business system will do
an xcopy of the current folder of the business system
depending which location they are, the problem is I can't
figure out how to have it copy that folder to the local
drive while in TS. Any suggetions?

 

[Bob]

I have a solution for you but since this is for Vera...

 

[Gene]

Well Bob, I'm not particular to Vera, I read some replys
to previos posts that Vera made that seemed on the same
track as my situation. If you have a recommendation, bring
it on. All would be appreciated.
Thanks Gene

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

LOL!

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

That's not a very descriptive subject line....

I'm not really sure what you are trying to do. Is the xcopy command
initiated by the user while working within a TS session? And the
folders must be copied to the clients local drive?
Can't you simply connect to the local drive, with something like:
net use X: \\clientpc\shared_folder_on_client

 

[Gene]

The files currently are not being copied to the local
drive. They are being copied to the server accross town.
Are you saying to create a share folder on that local
drive with that user only and map it in TS at start up,
then point the xcopy to that folder? Could that work?

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

I still don't get the picture. What is "across town" in terms of
network, domain, sites, server, client, etc?

Basically, you seem to want to copy files from one computer to
another. Copying them to a shared folder seems the easiest to me,
but you can do this in a number of ways.
I don't understand what you mean by "...with that user only..".
You don't have to do the mapping at startup either, just do it in
the script that (presumably) starts your end of day procedure.

 

[Gene]

It is a difficult procedure to explain, perhaps this is
why the company I bought the software company set it up
this way. I want the TS client (user204)to copy the folder
Ideal2 (\\master\apps\ideal2) to the local drive instead
of to the server, which is located across town. At this
point it copies it to \\master\backups\ideal2.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

To which local drive? The workstations local drive or the Terminal
Server local drive?
Anyway, I don't see why the net use command wouldn't work.
Just create a shared folder on your destination (local) drive,
connect to it within the TS session and copy the \\master\apps
\ideal2 folder to it.