Yes, NET USE is available for use in Win2K during the logon script phase. It works just fine.
It sounds like you are just trying to access a share with an account that does not have the proper rights.
"n: \\172.16.100.11\c" is what you are tyingto map to. Now, did you set up a share specifically called C or are you trying to map to the administratively-created C$ share that is access to the root of drive C:?
If so then you need to map to the full share name, C$, like this:
NET USE n: \\172.16.100.11\c$
And the account that is in use when this mapping happens must have administrative rights to connect to this share. Members of the Administrators group are the ones who can go into this share. Normal users cannont.
Now, you can specify to map the drive using a specific user account. Let's say you want to map N: to the C$ share on 172.16.100.11 like you said in your message. And let's say you want to use your domain Administrator account to do the mapping. So, when user Bob logs in, his drives map normal, but for drive N: it maps using the Administrator account. Here is how that would be set up:
net use N: \\172.16.100.11\c$ /persistent:no /user:YOURDOMAIN\Administrator "PASSWORD"
Of course, you would change "PASSWORD" to the Administrator password.
Now, doing this second thing leaves 2 potential problems. One, the Administrator password is in a flat text file. If you do not suppress the messages during the logon script (with the @ECHO OFF command) then yourusers will be able to read the password. And if anyone just happened to edit the logon script file, they would get the password.
Also, if you change your Administrator password every so often, you will have to remember to change it in the script, or the mapping will fail.
Hope this helps.
