Drive Mapping Question

[BMatt]

I have two Windows 2000 workstations connecting to a Novell 5.1 SBS. I have an application that is mapped to the F: drive. All the Windows 98 workstations are map fine. But the Windows 2000 workstations map the F drive to F://logon/server/sys. I can re-map the drive in Windows but when the workstation reboots it remaps to the F://logon/server/sys.

Is there a way I can have the Windows 2000 workstations skip the Novell drive mapping? I still need to the drive mapping for the Windows 98 workstations.

Thanks.

 

[TheLad]

Why don't you just put the F: mapping to the W2k server at the end of your login script? This way, it won't matter if the F: is already mapped because you can disconnect it and re-map it. -----------------------------------------------------
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[BMatt]

Thanks for the reply. But if I do add it to the bottom of the login script, won't it affect all the workstations? I need the script to map just the Windows 2000 workstations and not the 98 workstations.

 

[Beaghler]

Use a statement in your login script, something like:

if OS="WINNT" then
Map F:=<SERVER/volumeath>
end

&quot;WINNT&quot; works for 2000 OS too.

 

[TheLad]

The IF statement with the OS settings will work, but to map to a W2k server the syntaxt would be something like this:

IF &quot;%OS&quot;=&quot;WINNT&quot; THEN
NET USE F: /DEL
NET USE F: \\SERVERNAME\SHARE /USER:USER PASSWORDHERE
END -----------------------------------------------------
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[BMatt]

Thanks! I'll give it a whirl.

 

[pworps]

The best way to do this is just go to network properties of the win2k machine..properties of local connections, and make first network drive a letter you don't need for other mapping.