We are a large eductation establishment and we have just installed Windows 2000 advanced servers (load balanced) to serve our 700 pc network. As we have a large curriculum area from Art to Technology we have a bewildering number of applications and multimedia titles.
Consequently having one desk top for all would be clumsy and confusing. We would like to create individual desktops for each department with the users pointing to a profile for each one. to do this we need to create a mapped drivethat is machine specific not user (a pupil can be in music one lesson then maths the next). i.e.
profile = x:\students
anf dor the maths department x: =\\server\profiles\maths
This cannot be achied in the conventional login script as it is specific to the user.
Active directory does have Startup scripts for computers but “net use x: \\server\profiles\maths” in a bat file does not seem to work Could anyone help please.