Question

so, here is my situation, any users i have that have a homedrive configured in AD and log in via WiFi only, lose the drive, so i want to make a batch script that gets the file path from AD, then maps it. so this command gets the path

dsquery domainroot -samid %username% | dsget user -hmdir

but it returns

hmdir
\servername\servershares\share
dsget succseded

so i need to parse out \servername\severshare\share and assign it to a variable, then pass it to the NET USE command. I am just getting super frustrated with string management in batch. any help on how to parse out the file path would be much appreciated. thanks.

Answer 1

Assuming there aren’t spaces in your \servername\servershares\share then it’s can be solved with a FOR/F loop.

FOR /F "usebackq tokens=* skip=1 delims=" %%A in (`"dsquery domainroot -samid %username% | dsget user -hmdir"`) do (
    set "share=%%A"
    goto :leaveLoop
)
:leaveLoop
echo %share%