Need help with batch file...

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try
%username%

more info can be retrieved at command line:
net help user
help if

Better yet, use the "Logon Hours" option to restrict access if you are in an
AD environment (account properties > Account > Logon Hours).

Do let us know if this helps. Thanks!


"radar64" wrote:

> I am attempting to write a batch file (to be executed at startup) to enable
> or disable a given user account based on the current time. My efforts thus
> far have resulted in this:
>
> if %time% geq 15:30 if %time% lss 10:00 net user username /active:yes
> if %time% geq 10:00 if %time% lss 11:55 net user username /active:no
> if %time% geq 11:55 if %time lss 12:35 net user username /active:yes
> if %time% geq 12:35 if %time% lss 15:30 net user username /active:no
>
> If the time is from 3:30 PM to before 10:00 AM, or from 11:55 AM to before
> 12:35 PM, the account should be enabled. If the time is from 9:55 AM to
> before 11:55 AM, or from 12:35 PM to before 3:30 PM, the account should be
> disabled. In conjunction with a few sheduled tasks, this batch file would
> enable the given account to be unavailable to users except at the desired
> times, without the restrictions of the '/times' option for the 'net users'
> command.
> The only problem, naturally, is that the batch file doesn't work. The second
> line returns 'net was unexpected at this time', and the last line doesn't
> seem to run at all. What am I doing incorrectly?

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radar64 wrote:

> I simply put 'username' as an example. I was not intending to put a variable
> there... I think.
> I am something of a novice at writing batch files with conditional
> processing. Though I have used the help command for both if and net, the
> voluminous information the documentation for the if command contains gives no
> indication or what I must be doing wrong.
> And, unfortunately, we do not have Active Directory.
Hi

You might want to post your question to the newsgroup
microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin



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