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  • January 24, 2000 at 9:58 am #2081795

    How to create mapping drives in Windows

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    by quangtranil · about 23 years, 2 months ago

    I tried to create mapping drives in Windows NT Server 4.0, but it would not recognize the commands. Please help. Below is a sample of my login script.

    ECHO OFF
    net use z: /delete
    net use z: \\server\directory
    net use y: /delete
    net use y: \\server\directory
    net use m: /delete
    net use m: \\server\directory

    if “%username%” = “tran_quang”
    then net use o: \\server\Folder
    end

    if %member% = “it”
    then net use o: \\server\Folder\Subfolder
    end

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    • January 24, 2000 at 10:05 am #3897161

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by mtnsqs · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      Check the permissions on the directories you are trying to map to.

      Also try map to a know share name instead

    • January 24, 2000 at 10:35 am #3897159

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by robert w. · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      stick a “pause” command into your batch file..that might help you in pin point where the pb is. Also, check your policy. Uncheck Remove the “Map Network Drive” and “Disconnect Network Drive options”, uncheck Hide Network Neighborhood, and uncheck Hide Drives in My Computer. Those things gave me major headacks in the past.

    • January 24, 2000 at 11:01 am #3897157

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by ravi · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      If you have set “No Access” permission on NET.EXE, you won’t be abe to use the NET command. So, if the suggestions above are not working, you may want to check this.

      Good luck.

    • January 24, 2000 at 12:16 pm #3897156

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by mrshawng · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      In your example, you are mapping to “\\server\directory” where “directory” should be a share on the server, if it isn’t a share, that is one problem (same goes for the last net use, “Folder” has to be a share.).

      The “if” statement requires two equal signs (if “%username%”==”tran_quang”. Also, put the net use command on the same line with the if, and get rid of the “then” and “end” they aren’t valid commands.

      %member% is not a default variable. If you’re checking the users group membership, try “ifmember.exe” it is a NT 4.0 resource kit utility.

      REM out the ECHO OFF line so you can see what the script is trying to do, and then what it actually does. Put a pause at the end of the file, and if necessary at various points within.You can type the command and then /? to get information on how to use most of the NT command line programs.

      Hope this helps.

    • January 24, 2000 at 2:11 pm #3897152

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by kellyst · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      time to buy an NT book, don’t you think? You can map to shares not directories. Spend the 30 bucks and get a book.

    • January 25, 2000 at 2:29 am #3897131

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by stephen_ski · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      As Kelly Quite rightly stated you cannot create drive mapping only share mappings…
      take your folders apply permissions and then share them (for extra security apply NTFS permissions aswell) then apply your script

      Also you may want to seriously consider a good book MaRK NAMINSKI`s book on NT4 is good

    • January 25, 2000 at 7:48 pm #3897104

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by tazz · about 23 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      Do not map to drive Z. I’ve read a technet article saying the netlogon pipe maps drive Z during logon (invisibly) and disconnects after logon. This is why you can use drive Z after logon (e.g. to connect Iomega ZIP-drive)
      We had problems within a Kix script using drive Z. when we altered the drive mapping to Z it worked.

      Good luck

    • January 28, 2000 at 9:11 am #3896980

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by dbowlin · about 23 years, 1 month ago

      In reply to How to create mapping drives in Windows

      You must first share the folders you are mapping as drives. Also best not to use Z drive. Rather than deleting the mappings individually, you may want to try the following to delete all existing network resource mappings: net use * /delete /yes

    • September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3742378

      How to create mapping drives in Windows

      by quangtranil · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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