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Login script in NT to map network drives

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I am new to IT admin at my company and my supervisor believes that there is no way to use a login script to map the network drives for each box. I do believe that I have seen it somewhere. Can anyone help?

Are there any Techrepublic articles that would help?

Eric

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by syscokid

Not sure what you mean by "each box".

In a login script, in an all NT environment, with the net use command, you can map to any folder or share on any workstation or server on the network.

net use f: \\server1\share1
net use g: \\server2\share1
net use h: \\wksta36\c$
net use i: \\wksta101\bill

etc. etc.

You can only map one level deep, which means you can map to the C$ share on a workstation, so if you want to map to c:\my documents\bill, you need to create a share called Bill.et

by mbigogno

You can definitely map network drives in logon scripts. We currently map all users to a H: (home) drive and K: (departmental) drives. Just make logon scripts for each group. Ex. If accounting needs access to the accounting folder on server X, then you just need create a logon script for all users in the accounting group, (name it Acct.bat), you go to User manager, under profile, that is where you will see where to put the path to this logon script and also where you can map a home drive. Any NT Server book should cover all this. Hope this helps

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