Launch MSTSC from SHTML Page.

[Frank]

The following code will not work in my shtml page at all and I can not
figure out the reason. I get the error that there is a "Type Mismatch
'Launch'" when i click the button.

If i change the server side include to the acutaly ip it works great. I
just can not get it to work with the server side inclue. Any help would
be greatly appreciated! Thanks Everyone!

<p>Test</p>

<input type="BUTTON" name="Write" value="Click" language=VBS
onclick="Launch">

<script language="vbscript">
Sub Launch
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.run "mstsc.exe /v <!--#include file="currentid.txt"-->"
Set oShell = Nothing
End sub
</script>

[David Dorward]

Frank wrote:

If i change the server side include to the acutaly ip it works great.

View the source when you have the IP hard coded.
View the source when you use the SSI
What's different?

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[Frank]

>View the source when you have the IP hard coded.

View the source when you use the SSI
What's different?

The terminal that the mstsc is attempting to connect to has a dynamic
dhcp address. So from time to time it changes. (It can not be static).
The termianal checks its ip and uploads a txt file called currentid.txt
to the webserver from time to time. So in the shtml page has a line in
it <!--#include file="currentid.txt"-->" to show me the ip on the
page.

SO now i wanted to have a button laucnh a connection to the terminal
via mstsc. As i showed in the code oShell.run "mstsc.exe /v
<!--#include file="currentid.txt"-->" will not work. It will only work
if i take what the current ip is and hard code it into the shtml page.

Does that clear things up?

[Frank]

When i view the source they look the same but the SSI will not work for
some reason.

[David Dorward]

Frank wrote:

When i view the source they look the same but the SSI will not work for
some reason.

You wouldn't be comparing a static document served directly from your hard
disk with a dynamic document served from a webserver would you?

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[Toby Inkster]

Frank wrote:

oShell.run "mstsc.exe /v <!--#include file="currentid.txt"-->"

At a guess, currentid.txt contains a few "extra characters" that shouldn't
be there -- perhaps a line break at the end?

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