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Is it possible to get an environment variable of the windows client  (for example %systemroot%) using Thinclient without redirecting the output under windows and then opening and reading the output file under linux (our host operating system) ?

 

Is it possible to get an environment variable of the windows client  (for example %systemroot%) using Thinclient without redirecting the output under windows and then opening and reading the output file under linux (our host operating system) ?

 

There are a few exceptions, but I believe you are correct.  For most things, you would have to use a client-side command like "set >vars.txt" then use C$COPY to get the file to your server and then read it.

The exceptions: A couple of values in the ACCEPT FROM structures come from the workstation environment variables:

CLIENT-MACHINE-NAME and CLIENT-USER-NAME from TERMINAL-INFO structure.

USER-ID and STATION-ID from SYSTEM-INFORMATION.

 

Finally, when using @[DISPLAY]: there are a few pre-defined system paths you can use - see the Acuconnect manual, subsection on copying files between the client and the server.

Identifier Directory
<APPDATA>C:\\Documents and Settings\\<user>\\Application Data
<COMMON_APPDATA>C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application Data
<COMMON_DOCUMENTS>   C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents
<DESKTOP>C:\\Documents and Settings\\<user>\\Desktop
<LOCAL_APPDATA>C:\\Documents and Settings\\<user>\\Local Settings\\Application Data
<MYDOCUMENTS>C:\\Documents and Settings\\<user>\\My Documents
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