User Setup - Shares, HomeDirectory, Etc.

[Earl McManus]

Hello,

I am in the process of migrating from Novell to WinNT and have yet to
figure out how to duplicate the way our users were configured under
Novell

Under Novell - We had a SYS volume which had a directory structure
such as;

- Apps
- Groups
- Sales
- Marketing
- Users
- AAdams
- BJones
- CSmith

(etc)...

BJONES a member of Sales would have drives mapped (root) as
F: SYS
G: Groups\Sales
P: Users\Bjones

If BJONES browsed the "F" drive into GROUPS he would see SALES but not
see Marketing , likewise if he browsed USERS he would only see BJONES
not all the other user directories.


Under Windows, I created a share for VOL1, SALES and MARKETING (under
Groups), also shares as Adams - BJones - CSmith (etc, under Users).

Did a login script (we still have Win95/98 clients) mappings are;

F: VOL1
G: Groups\Sales
P: Users\Bjones

But when BJONES browses the "F" drive into GROUPS, he sees Marketing
likewise under users he sees all other user directories. He cannot
access the directories but he knows of their existance. Similarly when
browsing Network he can see the shares but cannot access them. Is it
possible to hide their existance from a user? Also did I correctly set
up the user (Share with login script mapping?) or shoud I have used
the HomeDirectory in user config (again we still have 95/98 machines)?

Thanks,
Earl

 

[Jetro]

The first thing a pure Novell admin wants to do is to hide Windows share
If you disable NetBIOS of any kind in your network, then the browsing would
be unavailable. You have to map everything in the login script.

 

[Jetro]

....and pre-W2k clients cannot communicate without NetBIOS.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

...and Exchange server will be unhappy, and any legacy apps that require
NetBIOS will be unhappy, etc etc etc

 

[Jetro]

BTW, WTF with MS, Exchange, and NetBIOS? I got an enterprise for the
services, its HQ with E2k is in the Pacific zone, I am here in Eastern, and
T1 link is not fast enough I wasn't not quite happy reading
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837391...

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Can you set up a WINS server in the remote site that replicates (push/pull)
with one in HQ? I think that would be a Good Thing.

 

[Jetro]

WINS and DNS are okay, I don't bother yet pulling the lists from the local
WINS as the teeth, I'll tune it up.
I am trying to figure out whether at least one Exchange server (currently
none is here) is needed to speed up the Eastern zone services and how bad
the network as such would be hit if NetBIOS would be disabled? We will move
to Outlook 2k3 in 3 months.