[thelist] Object required: 'WScript'

Patty McBride pcnewsguy at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 4 08:49:04 CDT 2002


Your asumption was correct.  Awesome explaination!
Thanks for considering my question.  I will check out
these links you gave me.


--- ashok at magicalkenya.com wrote:
> Patty :
>
> Are you trying to access the WScript object within a
> .ASP script ?
> I think you are.
> WSH (windows scripting host ) is a scripting shell
> for windows meant to be
> used in place of batch files.  It allows using
> VBScript /JScript to do
> administrative tasks on your Win2k
> server/workstation (typical stuff which
> used to be done by batch files...).
>
> When a WSH script executes the browser / web server
> is not the host  for
> the script, the WScript object is the host.  Which
> means the WScript object
> will not exist when you try to access it from a .ASP
> script....(since the
> web server a.k.a the Server object is the host)
>
> strictly speaking your WSH script execution will not
> have anything to do
> with IWAM or IUSR accounts as typically it is
> executed by an
> administrator/operator level user....
>
> I think you should also take a look at :
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/
> and the wsh faq :
> http://communities.msn.com/windowsscript
>
> to clarify where and when wsh should be used....
>
>
> HTH
> ashok
>
>
>
>
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