Win2K Clients on a NT 4.0 Domain

[Bob Armstrong]

Good day,

I tried posting this on the Networking newsgroup, but
didn't receive a reply. I'll try again here.

We are in the process of migrating from WINNT 4.0 to
Win2K. The decision was made (not by me) to update the
desktop client PCs before we migrate our NT domain
controllers to Active Directory. I have set up the domain
user accounts with the home directory mapped to
\\FileServer\Share\%username%. This will map the root of
the file server share, but does not map the user's "My
Documents" folder to their individual folder on the file
server. The user's can manually remap their My Documents
folder to their individual shared folders, but we'd rather
try to script it out. Does anyone know of a way to
automate this task based on this particular situation?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

WinNT allows you to map to a share, e.g.

net use x: \\SomeServer\SomeShare

but not to a folder on that share:

net use x: \\SomeServer\SomeShare\SomeFolder

You can do this in Win2000/XP only. Create individual
home shares for those users who use WinNT.

 

[Bob Armstrong]

Thank you for the reply. I am aware of this limitation in
NT, and am thus exploring the option of mapping the "My
Documents" folder on the Win2K clients to the appropriate
file server share. What I really need is a script that
could automatically do this at logon, as getting the
users to do it manually themselves isn't an option.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

- Bob

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Standard logon script stuff:

net use h: \\YourServer\%Username%

Make sure the share \\YourServer\BArmstrong (for example)
exists.