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Lazy admin, file copy...
So, I'm lazy and don't like clicking GUIs for some stuff and then sometimes I do.
In this case, I wanted an easier way to map drives to servers. So I wrote a wrapper script to pass my options to the Novell Linux Client command line tools.
This works for mapping drives to NetWare and Linux OES servers.
Here's my script:
nwmapper.sh
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# = 1 ] || [ $# = 2 ]; then
echo "number of arguments is $#"
if [ $1 = "DEL" ] || [ $1 = "del" ]; then
nwmap DEL /home/user/U:
else
if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
nwmap -d u -s $1 -v sys
else
nwmap -d u -s $1 -v $2
fi
fi
else
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
echo "must pass at least 1 argument"
exit 0
else
echo "only 2 arguments can be passed"
exit 0
fi
fi
#end script
Then I call it from the command line like:
./nwmapper.sh SERVERNAME
By default it will map the U drive/folder to the SYS volume on your server. You can also specify the volume name on the command line:
./nwmapper.sh SERVERNAME VOL
And if you want to dismount/unmap:
./nwmapper.sh del
Then, I can use this for a number of uses.
For example, I've been asked to copy files to multiple servers. So I wrote another wrapper script that wraps around my script.
copyfiles.sh #!/bin/bash sh /home/user/nwmap-syntax.txt $1 ls -l /home/user/U/LOGIN/Banner.exe cp /home/user/Banner.exe /home/user/U/LOGIN/Banner.exe ls -l /home/user/U/LOGIN/Banner.exe sh /home/user/nwmap-syntax.txt del #end script
Then I create another file with my server names listed:
sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME1 sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME2 sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME3 sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME4
Good luck!
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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