Active Directory policy, mapped drives etc.

[INBred]

Hi Every one,

I have an AD server and would like to create a script with a policy so that when and end user logs on to the domain network drives are mapped to what i specify, also if it is possible in a *.bat file to add network printers ?

I know about the "net use z: \\servername\share" command and would really like to do the printer install aswell, i noticed a post about a vbs script but do not want to use these types of scripts.

Any nice script peeps here that can help ?

T.i.A

Matthew

 

[INBred]

Also forgot to say is there a command that takes the username of the user running the script and uses it to map to thier hom directory ?

I.E.
matthew logging in...
so...

"net use h: \\sever\matthew"

is it $username$ in the command ?

and if this has been stated in another post please could you direct me?

 

[Jpoandl]

Home directories can be set without even using logon scripts:

To specify a network home directory, complete the following steps:



Access the user's Properties dialog box in Active Directory Users And Computers and then choose the Profile tab.

Click the Connect option button and then select a drive letter for the home directory. For consistency, you should use the same drive letter for all users. Also, be sure to select a drive letter that won't conflict with any currently configured physical or mapped drives. To avoid problems, you might want to use Z as the drive letter.

Type the complete path to the home directory using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) notation, such as \\GAMMA\User_Dirs\%UserName%. You include the server name in the drive path to ensure that the user can access the directory from any computer on the network.




Open AD Users and Computer, open a user


Basic article on using BAT files to create drive mappings..

http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/38952/pg/2/2.html

You might also want to check out Kixtart.org for logon scripting. This is free and semi-supported by MS. Was written by MS... But this is a very easy scripting language that is designed just for Windows logon scripts. Works well and very easy to lear. examples of logon script

http://www.kixscripts.com

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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