Active Driectory Drive Mappings

[Nick]

How do I map a network drive based on current location.

Here's the setup.

Master AD servers around the area.

Then each location has it's own win 2000 sever that houses
users home directories and applications.

Each location has applications that only are stored
locally. Some of the people travel between locations.

So the mappings for one location, lets say f: = \\server1
\apps

Now that will work for the one location. But when that
person needs to go to location 2 then need that f: drive
mapped to f:= \\sever2\apps

My question is, how do you determine what your local
server is when you log into AD? Would you have to do this
by the IP range? And how would I map this based on that.

My orginal though would be for example in teh script. I
don't know what the script would be but here's the logic
behind it.

IF %IPADDRESS IS IN 192.5.6.* then map \\server1\apps
IF %IPADDRESS IS IN 192.5.7.* then map \\SERVER2\apps

Or something like that. So it would know what the local
server name is to map to.

Any thoughts?

 

[Cary Shultz [MVP]]

-----Original Message-----
How do I map a network drive based on current location.

Here's the setup.

Master AD servers around the area.

Then each location has it's own win 2000 sever that houses
users home directories and applications.

Each location has applications that only are stored
locally. Some of the people travel between locations.

So the mappings for one location, lets say f: = \\server1
\apps

Now that will work for the one location. But when that
person needs to go to location 2 then need that f: drive
mapped to f:= \\sever2\apps

My question is, how do you determine what your local
server is when you log into AD? Would you have to do this
by the IP range? And how would I map this based on that.

My orginal though would be for example in teh script. I
don't know what the script would be but here's the logic
behind it.

IF %IPADDRESS IS IN 192.5.6.* then map \\server1\apps
IF %IPADDRESS IS IN 192.5.7.* then map \\SERVER2\apps

Or something like that. So it would know what the local
server name is to map to.

Any thoughts?
.

Nick,

I would think that SITES might come in handy! I assume
that you have Sites set up properly? This means that you
have created a Site, configured a Subnet in the Active
Directory Sites and Services MMC and associated it with
the appropriate Site. This would be part of the picture.

DFS would be the other part.

Does this point you down the right path?

HTH,

Cary

 

[Nick]

-----Original Message-----

Nick,

I would think that SITES might come in handy! I assume
that you have Sites set up properly? This means that you
have created a Site, configured a Subnet in the Active
Directory Sites and Services MMC and associated it with
the appropriate Site. This would be part of the picture.

DFS would be the other part.

Does this point you down the right path?

HTH,

Cary
.

I hope it does. It looks like I have a little reading to
do.

 

[Cary Shultz [MVP]]

-----Original Message-----


I hope it does. It looks like I have a little reading to
do.
.

If you need any help just post back and someone in here
will be glad to help!

Have fun!

Cary

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


If you need any help just post back and someone in here
will be glad to help!

Have fun!

Cary
.

If you can, send me one step deeper. Or if you have any
links to good how to articles.