Network Drive Mapping Scripts

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I have another problem relating to my last post. Now that have distibuted the mapped network drive accross domain controller, is there any scripts that can auto generate mapped network drives when ever a user account is created in Active Directory.

Again any help would be very gratefaul and thank you in advance for your help

Chris

 

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you would want to use Group Policy for this, its quite a complicated system, but simple policies can be implemented with just a little fiddling about

here is a link i found @ Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/management/grouppolwp.asp

that explains the technology

ideally you would just group policy to deploy a startup script (net use etc etc)

 

Do you mean for use as a logon script. A simple batch file can do this job.

In notepad add a line for each mapped drive like so

net use <drive letter>: \\<servername>\<sharename>

eg

net use J: \\fileserver1\accounts

then save the text file with a .bat file extension. You can then add this to the users profile or add it as a logon script to an OU group policy in active directory.

 

Hi All

i have already implmemnted the NET USE scripts for the current user accounts on the domain but we are due an influx of staff soon so what i was thinkning about was a way in when a user account is created a mapped network drive is automatically created as well. As it would save a hell of a lot of time

Cheers

Chris

 

I'm not sure I fully understand your request, do you mean the creation of the folder that is to be mapped by the script?

 

Sorry i have just noticed that i am not being quite clear. What i was looking to do was create individual mapped network drives for each user ie when a user account is created for joe.bloggs automatically a mapped network drive in \\servername\Users\joe.bloggs would be created. Sorry if i saint being very clear

Cheers

Chris

 

What I tend to do is use the home folder section of the Profile tab in the user account properties for creating a users home folder using the %username% variable.



Lets say that its the drive letter J: to be mapped to \\servername\Users\joe.bloggs then I would change the drop down to J: and enter \\servername\Users\%username% in the To: box. Windows will create that folder substituting the %username% variable with the username of the account that your working on and will map that drive witout the need of a script. Win98 client wont map this drive so you can work round this but using "net use /home" as part of a logon script.

If your wishing to create more than just the one folder per new user then your going to have to use some sort of script to create these folders.

HTH

 

Thanks Si & AJ that exactly what i was looking for. You have made my day at work tomorrow a hell of a lot easier

Thanks again much appreciated

Chris