How to Address a drive on a server?

[JethroUK©]

I want to create a roaming profile on one of my networked machines
It says to address the server e.g.

//Servername/directory/Directory

but how do i address a drive on a server

//ComputerName/G:/Directory/Directory ?

Or are servers single drives - In which case how do i address the above
drive
on a network - should I give that drive a name? maybe map a network drive to
that drive?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I want to create a roaming profile on one of my networked machines
It says to address the server e.g.

//Servername/directory/Directory

but how do i address a drive on a server

//ComputerName/G:/Directory/Directory ?

Or are servers single drives - In which case how do i address the above
drive
on a network - should I give that drive a name? maybe map a network drive to
that drive?

Try this:

\\ComputerName\G$\Directory\Directory

This is called an administrative share. Watch the direction of
the slashes, and go easy with your crossposts on such basic
questions.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi - first, no need to crosspost to so many groups. A handful of relevant
groups will suffice - your question has nothing to do with hardware, etc.
and in fact has nothing to do with XP at all. You create profiles on your
servers, in a domain. You can't use roaming profiles in a workgroup.

For roaming profiles, first set up a share on your server - I'd call the
folder profiles, and share it as profiles$ (hidden share). If using Windows
Server 2003, you need to change the share permissions so that everyone=full
control (is set that way by default in prior versions). Then make the NTFS
permissions so that all users have full control as well.

Then in the user's ADUC properties, set the profile path to

\\servername\profiles$\%username%

Note: Keep profiles small. Redirect My Documents to the users' home
directories. Also, don't let anyone roam back and forth between different OS
versions (NT, 2k, XP) or you'll have problems.