Solved Determine if a network computer is online from a batch file

[jsquareg]

Under Win 7 I have a batch file in which I want to include an If Exist statement to determine if a specific Network computer is on the network. I thought something like this would work but I keep getting an invalid path error.

If exist \\HP-Laptop\\ 'do a little something'

Will some please help me out?

Thank you.

 

[jsquareg]

Under Windows 7, is it possible to determine if a specific computer is logged in to a network? If so, how?

Thank you.

 

[Alejandro85]

You mean if some other computer is connected and turned on?

If so, the easiest way is to simply ping it, if it replies it's online. If it fails, it's either powered off, or firewalled (by default Windows allows pings from anyone).
You can also use that in bat files, and use the returned errorlevel value for further actions.

 

[jsquareg]

You mean if some other computer is connected and turned on?

If so, the easiest way is to simply ping it, if it replies it's online. If it fails, it's either powered off, or firewalled (by default Windows allows pings from anyone).
You can also use that in bat files, and use the returned errorlevel value for further actions.

Yes, That is exactly what I should have said. It has been ages since I have pinged something so I will have to dust off my memory bank.

Thanks so much.

 

[jsquareg]

Determine if a network computer is online from a batch file REVISITED

I found this snippet of code while searching for things to help me solve the initial problem. It works like I thought it would but I don't understand what the || in the middle of the ping statement does.

Will someone give me a boost here?

Thank you.


ping racer -n 1 -w 100>nul || goto ingerror


ingerror
echo Host down
goto eof
:eof exit /b

 

[jsquareg]

I found this snippet of code while searching for things to help me solve the initial problem. It works like I thought it would but I don't understand what the || in the middle of the ping statement does.

Will someone give me a boost here?

Thank you.


ping racer -n 1 -w 100>nul || goto ingerror


ingerror
echo Host down
goto eof
:eof exit /b

I guess when I posted this the double vertical marks were interpreted as a smiley.

Anyway, never mind. I finally realized the double vertical marks were used to pipe the output of the ping. Like I said it has been a long time since I fooled around in this area.

Thanks again.

 

[Barman58]

If you ever get this issue you can switch off smiley recognition in the advanced editor

I've fixed the two posts above

 

[jsquareg]

If you ever get this issue you can switch off smiley recognition in the advanced editor

I've fixed the two posts above

Thank you.

 

[Barman58]

No problem, It's easier if you view the Matrix in it's Raw form