User name folder with & character in it

[IslandBoy77]

Hi
I am working on a PC whose XP user folder name is bob & jane. WSUS doesn't like this and spits out "is not recognized as an internal or external command..." error, which results in a "Determination of OS properties failed" message. There's no way to change the folder name without creating a new user and transferring all user data from one to the other - too big a job to make it worthwhile. Is there any way to force WSUS to accept the & character and just carry on?
Thanks
Peter

[Gerby]

Hello Peter!

Although the ampersand is not forbidden in file names, it is problematic (as seen), because in command lines it is interpreted as separator between two commands.

As I understand you, you have the wsusoffline folder with the repository lying in the "bob & jane" tree. Wouldn't it be the easiest to move the wsusoffline folder somewhere else, out of that problematic tree?

Greetings
Gerby

[aker]

There is another Problem.
%temp%
It includes the username, so the Problem will occure there too.
Maybe it will help to put all occurences of temp into quotation Marks. This will fix the Bug.

For example
Replace
%temp%\setsystemenvvars.cmd
Through
"%temp%\setsystemenvvars.cmd"
Then the Cmd will ignore the & character

[IslandBoy77]

No, the Wsus offline repository sits on my Vista SP2 PC's hard drive, with a shared folder. It works fine running it across the network. I've only ever struck this twice, and both times it was when someone had created a user name / folder that had the & sign in it. You'd think MS would stop the use of a "special" character like that in critical folders like the user folder, wouldn't you?

Any work around for this?

[aker]

Wsusou fails to create a file in your temp directory.
You can try the following
Open the Cmd using Start -> Run, then Type "Cmd" and press Enter

There go to your Network Drive using

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cd /d "N:\wsusoffline\client\cmd"

Replace n: and wsusoffline through your Network Drive and path
Then Type

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md C:\temp
set TEMP=C:\temp


This will create a folder temp in the Root of c: and Tell the System that this is the temp path it should use
Then call wsusou using

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DoUpdate.cmd


If you want to you could add some Parameters like I posted here Iwan just copied it to this forum

[boco]

You'd think MS would stop the use of a "special" character like that in critical folders like the user folder, wouldn't you?

Wishful thinking...

[aker]

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[boco]

Könnte jemand das als Antwort auf iwan's Post schreiben, da ich nicht dazu berechtigt bin

Done.