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NT 4.0 WS Mapping Drive To Win2k Server

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by tom_thorndycraft 1 view

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I have a Windows 2000 Member Server. It is in production. I have 2 NT 4.0 Workstations which have their drives mapped to the Win2k Server via a Net Use Batch Routine. (No login scripts) All the drives map perfectly with the exepction of the "H" (Home) directory, which when mapped, maps to the root share of the H Drive volume. Each User has his/her own directory or "H Drive" within that volume. After mapping to the Root of "H",the Users would then have to find their own Home Directory located within that Volume. BUT, our Windows 2000 Professsional machines map directly to their own home directory. (H:\)
I think that this might be a Microsoft Client issue, but I cannot find anything on it via the Microsoft KB, or Technet.
Each User has Rights and Permissions to his/her own H Drive only. When it maps to the root of the H Drive volume, they can see the other Users directories, but cannot access them. The NT machines have SP 6a installed.
And the Win2k machines have SP 2 installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Tom

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by timthetoolman

Not quite sure what the exact problem is here... are you saying that the two NT machines are the ones with problems only? They're supposed to map to the root users dir (which is shared) and then navigate to their own directory?

...but dont make that mapping at all?

Cheers,
Tim.

by timthetoolman

Hi,

Sorry I've taken so long to get back to you.

I think you need to add ummm... %username% or %home% or something like that to the mapped drive. Unfortunately, I cant quite remember the exact environment variable...

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Tim.

by tom_thorndycraft

Tim The Tool Man,
Thanks for the reply.
I expected the NT 4.0 WS's to map directly to their own directory within the H Drive volume. But they are mapping to the root share of the H Drive, so that they see everyone's H Drive(directories) The Win2k machines, on the other hand, will map directly to the Users own directory in the H drive, and not just to the root.
Thanks,
Tom

by joseph moore

Wait a moment:
2 NT4 workstations will not map to \\server\hdrive\%userdir% is that right?
Well, that is a limitation of NT4.
NT4 handles drive mapping like this: you can only map to \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME . To get to \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME\%USERDIR% you have to Share out each user directory. Then, the share name pathing is only \\SERVERNAME\%USERDIR% .NT4 can't map to the lower subfolders.
But Win2K CAN. In Win2K clients (Pro and Server) you can set it up to map to \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME\FOLDERNAME\FOLDER2NAME\etc
I don't remember if there is a limit, but you can go pretty deep.
So, what you need to do is share out each user directory in H: drive (share them out with the $ after the share name, like JOE$, to make it a hidden share. Better this way.) Then, set up the H: drive mapping to \\SHARENAME\%USERDIR%$

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