Startup Subst both normal and administrator

[MartinDC]

I have mapped a drive on my main Vista machine for all my documents
etc. N:.

With XP it was also possible to map to the local machine to make sure
that N: on all machines was the same. But with Vista "net use" does
not work locally so I have to use "subst". Trouble is that if I want
to subst the drive to both normal and administrator users, then I have
to subst twice. But how can I subst from the startup folder? (And
then for both levels.)

Martin

 

[Andrew Rossmann]

[This followup was posted to
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]

I have mapped a drive on my main Vista machine for all my documents
etc. N:.

With XP it was also possible to map to the local machine to make sure
that N: on all machines was the same. But with Vista "net use" does
not work locally so I have to use "subst". Trouble is that if I want
to subst the drive to both normal and administrator users, then I have
to subst twice. But how can I subst from the startup folder? (And
then for both levels.)

Huh? 'NET USE \\thiscomputer\share' does work with Vista. I currently
have an E: that is just a shared subdir of C: (done due to some old
program I copied from another computer). Make certain the Server service
is running, and that file sharing is enabled in Network settings. You
may also need to tweak firewall settings.

To use SUBST, you could create a simple text file containting the
command with a .CMD or .BAT extension, and put it under:
\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Program\Startup

To be safe, try making it look like this:
SUBST N: /D
SUBST N: c:\whatever\whatever