Login Scripts for drive mappings

[Guest]

Im new to Active Directory and im trying to create Login Scripts for drive
mappings. I've been successful with creating login scripts using simple bat
files.

For example; net use n: \\server\users\username

I'm creating the login script Group Policy at the OU level. So of my drive
mapping need to point to a specific directory underneath the users
directories. The mapping has to look like this.

For example; \\server\users\username\dir1

This issue here is that the username is a variable. How do i create a script
so that when a user logs in, the script uses his/her name in the username
place. This can't be done using net use commands in a bat file, can it? Do i
have to user VB Scripts, and if so, can someone tell me how to do this. I
looked at some on Microsofts website, and they looked really long (a couple
of pages) for such a script. I didn't really understand what was going on in
the scripts either.

Thanks in advance,
Shannon

 

[Florian Frommherz]

Howdy Shannon!

Im new to Active Directory and im trying to create Login Scripts for drive
mappings. I've been successful with creating login scripts using simple bat
files.

For example; net use n: \\server\users\username

That is correct. If you always go and map the drives on every startup,
have a look at the "/persistent:no"-flag. Just as a tipp...

For example; \\server\users\username\dir1

This issue here is that the username is a variable. How do i create a script
so that when a user logs in, the script uses his/her name in the username
place. This can't be done using net use commands in a bat file, can it? Do i

Well, have you already tried using the %username% variable? If you try
calling

\\server\users\%username%\dir1

it should work for you as long as it *really* is a logon script. If you
run this as a startup script it will not work, since the script will
then run in the context of the local system.

Just give %username% a try and let us know if it worked for you.

cheers,

Florian

 

[Guest]

Floian, Thanks for the response. You actually got me half way to where i want
to be.
The %username% command only worked part of the way. When the mapping ended
with %username% it worked. I got the logged on users name.

For example; \\server\users\username

That was good. But when the %username% variable was in the middle to the
script, it didn't work. I got no mapping at all.

For example; \\server\users\username\dir1

Any Ideas

 

[Guest]

Are you sure you aren't making any typos? Because overhere it works fine
net use h: \\server\users\%username%\directory

Note: if there are space in the directory name make sure you include "" in
the script:
net use h: "\\server\users\%username%\dir with spaces"

Regards,
Erik

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Erik:

Are your workstations Windows 2000. Im running Windows 2000 sp4. I also got
another reply for another user saying it works for him, but he was running
XP. Thanks for the tip about spaces, good to know; even though there aren't
any in my paths.

Thanks again,
Shannon

 

[Guest]

Shannon!

To be exact it works for me on Windows 2000 sp4 and Windows XP Pro...

 

[Dave Britt]

Another way would be to use a vbscript for example:

Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strUser = objNetwork.UserName
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "N:","\\server\users\"&strUser
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "P:","\\server\"&strUser&"\dir1"

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