Advise / Suggestions - Merging 2 Depts.

[theripper]

Recently, we have merged 2 internal departments.

And now (of course) they would like to merge all their files together. I'm not sure of the best way to do this, without having numerous errors with peoples file paths, etc. . .

For example:
My Marketing Dept & Sales Depts are now called "Research."

At the container level I have the following login script:
IF MEMBER OF "MARKETING" THEN
MAP H:=VIAT2\VOL1:USERS\MARKETING\%LOGIN NAME
MAP ROOT G:=VIAT2\VOL1:USERS\MARKETING\%LOGIN NAME
MAP ROOT F:=VIAT2\VOL1:USERS\MARKETING

((same format for Sales Dept.))

I have approx., 20 users in each of those departments. My biggest concern is the paths. IE how to make everything that was once saved USERS\MARKETING\SMITH\DOCUMENTS\LEGAL\FEDERAL\CONVICTIONS\ now see the new path
USERS\RESEARCH\SMITH\DOCUMENTS\LEGAL\FEDERAL\CONVICTIONS

Any suggestions/feedback or advise would be greatly appreciated on to make this a very easy transition.

Thanks in advance .

 

[DrGreen26]

I forget what this is called, but if the users are not "HARD MAPPING" their drives, then you can just re-direct the drive mapping. If they have this hard mapped, then it is going to be painful. In other words, you can make the changes, but you will have to halp the users work through changing this. I stringly suggest that they never hard map anything, as with changes like this, it is much easier to do. Of course, good ol Bill will see to it that the operating system will always work around what Novell does best.

Hope this helps?


Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[DrGreen26]

I forget what this is called, but if the users are not "HARD MAPPING" their drives, then you can just re-direct the drive mapping. If they have this hard mapped, then it is going to be painful. In other words, you can make the changes, but you will have to help the users work through changing this. I stringly suggest that they never hard map anything, as with changes like this, it is much easier to do. Of course, good ol Bill will see to it that the operating system will always work around what Novell does best.

Hope this helps?


Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years.

I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.

 

[theripper]

Thanks for the prompt response doc!

By Hard Mapping, do you mean the user actually having set certain mappings up locallay, and hit the "re-connect at login" option?

If so, I only have a few people doing so. Most everyone receives their only network map settings from the login script.

Thanks again ~