Browsing Active Directory from the Client! How?

[gemel]

There is a lot of talk about using the client to access Active
Directory by browsing and connecting to resources. Well I find that
this is good in Active Directory Users and Computers with Find. But I
want my users to be able to map to network drives from XP clients. The
way I see it at the moment is that searching is still network based as
it was before. I can find printers in Active Directory. But what about
shares? What about general Active Directory browsing from a client who
does not have the luxury of Find?


Regards

John L

 

[Herb Martin]

There is a lot of talk about using the client to access Active
Directory by browsing and connecting to resources. Well I find that
this is good in Active Directory Users and Computers with Find. But I
want my users to be able to map to network drives from XP clients. The
way I see it at the moment is that searching is still network based as
it was before. I can find printers in Active Directory. But what about
shares? What about general Active Directory browsing from a client who
does not have the luxury of Find?

Printers can be added semi-automatically when sharing them.

For Shares, the admin must explicitly add them -- Pick an OU
in AD, right click, ADD....shared directories.

 

[ptwilliams]

The shares GUI sucks! Why it's not the same as for printers we don't
know...

A tip. Load nethood and get as far as the domain/AD icon. Drag the AD icon
to the all users desktop using the right-mouse button and choose create
shortcut when prompted. Now users can right-click on that and use the find
option for users, computers, printers, etc.

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There is a lot of talk about using the client to access Active
Directory by browsing and connecting to resources. Well I find that
this is good in Active Directory Users and Computers with Find. But I
want my users to be able to map to network drives from XP clients. The
way I see it at the moment is that searching is still network based as
it was before. I can find printers in Active Directory. But what about
shares? What about general Active Directory browsing from a client who
does not have the luxury of Find?

Printers can be added semi-automatically when sharing them.

For Shares, the admin must explicitly add them -- Pick an OU
in AD, right click, ADD....shared directories.

 

[gemel]

Paul,
Thanks for confirming my thoughts on the access to shares from
the client. The tip also seems good, but I have to confess that I
don't understand what you mean by 'load nethood'. My undersatnding of
nethood is that it is a folder holding network places.

Regards

 

[ptwilliams]

You are correct. NetHood short For Network Neighbourhood, renamed to My
Network Places should have both an entire network icon and a directory icon.
It is this directory icon that I am referring to.

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Paul,
Thanks for confirming my thoughts on the access to shares from
the client. The tip also seems good, but I have to confess that I
don't understand what you mean by 'load nethood'. My undersatnding of
nethood is that it is a folder holding network places.

Regards

 

[gemel]

You are correct. NetHood short For Network Neighbourhood, renamed to My
Network Places should have both an entire network icon and a directory icon.
It is this directory icon that I am referring to.

Paul,
I'm sorry to be a drag on this one. My Network Places contains
only 2 icons - Add a Network Place and Entire Network. Nethood
contains only a network place that was added earlier and no other
icons. I've never seen the All Directory icon.

Regards

John L