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Users on my NT4.0 network receive a mapping to their home dir through the use of User Mgr for Domains where I specifiy \\servername\home\%username% and through logon scripts where I specify "net use h: \\servername\home". Unfortunately, users end up seeing the entire list of other users' home directories and must browse to their own. How can I map this home dir for each user to his/her OWN directory? (So browsing the \\..\home directory is no longer needed)

Thanks,
Kurt G.

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by calves

I think it will be more work than it's worth. You'll have to create a share fromn each user folder and then map it. You'll might not even have enough letters in the alphabet to do so. My approach to it is to set Word and Excel (if it's what you use) under Tools Option File Location (Word) or General (Excel) to the users' folders. This way whenever they set an open or save command their folders are the first to open.

Good luck!

by syscokid

The way we do it is, first we create a hidden share on the server called Users$ then another hidden share under it called, e.g., lastname firstname$.

Then in user mgr we set the home directory (in our case P) to \\servername\lastname firstname$.Taking this approach, we don't have to map P in the logon script.

Everyone has a P drive that is private to them. They can only see their own home directory.

We also take Calves' approach to setting default user directories in Excel, Word, etc.

If you have many users it will take some time to set up but it might be worth it.

by guy

Try the SUBST command to substitute a drive letter for \\server\share\username.
It works well with the %Username% variable.

Here is a sample.
net use P: /home
[or net use p: \server\users]
subst K: P:\%username%
Net use P: /delete

First Tip: search for SUBST in Technet or elsewhere.
Second tip master the 'ifexist' and net use p: /DELETE command.

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