I have an interesting problem. I have a script that I wish to use to
check
a database and then map drives based on who is logging on and the info
in
the database.
When I run the script on any of the machines in the computer lab it
segfaults. When I copy the exact same code that is in the script into
an
irb session and run it I don’t have any trouble. I can run the script
proper on my office workstation.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
I’m running ruby 1.8.6 on all the machines in question.
Here is the script:
require ‘Win32API’
require ‘xmlrpc/client’
class User
def lookup
user = “0” * 20
getUserName = Win32API.new("advapi32", "GetUserName", 'P', "V")
getUserName.call(user)
return user
end
def account_created?(login)
server = XMLRPC::Client.new2('http://localhost:3003/user/api')
result = server.call('Check', login)
if result == 0
return false
else
return true
end
end
def map_drives(login)
system("net use x: /delete /y")
system("net use l: /delete /y")
system("net use x: //cad1/#{login}")
system("net use l: //cad1/shared")
end
end
user = User.new
username = user.lookup
if user.account_created?(username)
user.map_drives(username)
end
–
“Hey brother christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”
result = server.call('Check', login)
system("net use l: /delete /y")
user.map_drives(username)
end
What version of Windows are you on? Is there a backtrace you could
show us? That would help us determine whether or not it’s the system
calls or something else.
Okay for reasons I’m not sure of right now and don’t have time to
investigate changing the server.call to server.call2 fixed the problem.
For some reason my last post never made it…
In short, your declaration of GetUserName is wrong - it takes 2
parameters, not 1, and you aren’t checking for failure. As it stands
now it looks like “login” will always be an empty string.
Save yourself some time and use Admin.get_login from the sys-admin
package, which you can install via rubygems.
When I run the script on any of the machines in the computer lab it
return false
end
What version of Windows are you on? Is there a backtrace you could
show us? That would help us determine whether or not it’s the system
calls or something else.
sys-admin looks like it will do what I need however the link ( http://tinyurl.com/cjkzl) in the documentation on rubyforge is broken.
MSDN
just throws a 404 page.
I’m trying to find the options for the config_global_group method.
That looks like it should do everything I need. Annoying that
GetUserName
returns the name of the account that owns the process not the actual
account
that is logged-in locally, so much for running it as a service.
sys-admin looks like it will do what I need however the link (http://tinyurl.com/cjkzl) in the documentation on rubyforge is broken. MSDN
just throws a 404 page.
That’s because MS insists on moving its documentation every 6 months
in order to make it more Ajaxy and less functional. But I digress…