Hi
I have some roving colleagues with laptops who are supposed to be making
backups of certain files (mostly PST) when they check back to the office.
But they don't. Is there any reliable VBS way to grab a file from a laptop
once the machine is hooked back onto the lan ?

All these machine have a certaine name beginning with "PORT"
PORT-HARRY
PORT-JENNY etc

I imagine it would be feasible to have a script that would run - say -every
two hours on a server that would check to see if a "PORT-xxx" machine had
reconnected and then scan its entire C: disk looking for PST files? Then
copy them somewhere safe on the server?

Could anyone please give me some ideas on how to do that ?

TIA

Mosalie Rignon

Re: Grabbing a certain file from a networked machine by Bruce

Bruce
Wed Oct 06 16:59:59 CDT 2004

Mosalie,

If you are using Win 2000 or XP, you might want to look at the
Synchronization Manager ...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;312171

I don't know if it applies to other versions of Windows.

Alternatively, if you are sure you want to script it yourself, you might
want to consider working the other way around ... that is, adding a trigger
to the local machine's logon script to detect if the lan is available and
then do a copy to the fileshare of interest.

Bruce

"Mosalie Rignon" <Mosalie.Rignon@bidon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I have some roving colleagues with laptops who are supposed to be making
> backups of certain files (mostly PST) when they check back to the office.
> But they don't. Is there any reliable VBS way to grab a file from a laptop
> once the machine is hooked back onto the lan ?
>
> All these machine have a certaine name beginning with "PORT"
> PORT-HARRY
> PORT-JENNY etc
>
> I imagine it would be feasible to have a script that would run -
say -every
> two hours on a server that would check to see if a "PORT-xxx" machine had
> reconnected and then scan its entire C: disk looking for PST files? Then
> copy them somewhere safe on the server?
>
> Could anyone please give me some ideas on how to do that ?
>
> TIA
>
> Mosalie Rignon
>