Use of the %0\..\ Syntax in the Smsls.bat File

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During a log on and when the logon script is running, the Lmscript.exe program runs its commands from the NETLOGON share. However, batch files have no way of determining where they are running from, and the current directory set by Lmscript.exe is not the NETLOGON share. As a workaround, Systems Management Server uses the %0\..\ path to indicate the argv[0] present when the batch file was run. The batch file can then refer to this path and determine its own location and look for other files there.

An example of this can be found in the Slow Network detection portion of the Smsls.bat logon script file:

   REM SNET_DOS
   %0\..\netspeed
   if not errorlevel 1 goto NET_DOS
   if not errorlevel 2 goto END
   if errorlevel 2 %0\..\choice /T:Y,30 Slow network detected. Continue
   if not errorlevel 2 goto NET_DOS
   goto END
				

Prior to use of this technique, Systems Management Server was forced to use hard-coded drive Z to reference needed files. Now the drive used during a NET LOGON can be arbitrary, and dynamically determined.