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by corky132

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Is there any way to map a drive for a user, and have it appear as the root? (instead of seeing a P: drive as folder on \\someserver\share, seeing it as P:). I've tried the subst command, and it doesnt seem to work on windows 2000.. thanks.

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by syscokid

Not too up on Win2K, but in NT you would share out \\someserver\share as myshare, and then map P: to myshare.

by corky132

that's ok if you have 1 share.. but what if you want to share one folder to everyone.. but if you wanted to share \\server\users\accounting\username to each individual user (using %username%).

each user sees their network drive as username on \\server\users\accounting.

by akula

Right click on "My computer," click on "map network drive," and then you can type in the name of the resource (or browse to it, provided the resource is shared), and choose the drive letter. It will then be mapped to the computer. Very simple, actually. You just have to do it on the desktop within the GUI.

by corky132

2 things.. first, i'm doing this on 1200 users.. second, my users cant tie their own shoes.. (hehe)... i wouldnt expect them to map their own drives...

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