Sharing a single batch file for all home group Computers..

tc61 · 05 Aug 2014

Hello,

Here is my question. I have several computers on a home group. All the computer have program X on them. I need to run a batch file to start the program with some arguments that need to be changed often. I would like to have the computers all run the same batch file from shared location to execute the batch file. This way I only have to modify the one batch file for all the computer. I tired linking a shortcut but it will not work correctly. Can someone help me out?

thanks you

MilesAhead · 06 Aug 2014

Without knowing the contents of the batch file the easiest solution would be to create a batch file on each machine (with shortcut to the local batch so users won't meddle with the batch file contents) that copies the remote batch and runs it.

Code:

@echo off
REM copy batch from server for latest params
copy x:\remotebatch.cmd newlocalbatch.cmd
REM 5 second delay for file to copy
ping 192.0.2.2 -n 1 -w 5000 > nul
REM run it
newlocalbatch

Edit: You may want to add some error handling etc..