Home directory

[axslinger]

Greetings,

This should be a no-brainer but I haven't gotten it yet. I want my Win2K users to automatically have a drive letter mapped to their "home" directory on a Win2K or NT4.0 Server. I DON'T want to use roaming profiles. That's gets messy, since there is no consistancy to the workstations. Lets say there is a folder in the root of D: called Users, and within that folder are shared individual users folders. I have tried using the login script with a line like Net Use g: \\fs_server1\%username% but it didn't work. The %username% part disappeared on it's own from the script! Besides, the Win98 workstations choked on it. I tried going to the profiles section of the User Manager and under the Home section I attempted to map a drive letter to a UNC path. That didn't work either. I really don't think it should be necessary to create individual login scripts for each user just to map a discrete home directory.


Thanks,
Brian

 

[peterve]

Try using the kixstart tool (I think you can find it in the NT 4 Resource Kit)... it's far more powerful handling environment variables ... Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be

 

[BertV]

Several Things you can try that i have done
Pre 2000
Under the Users directory create the user and share that directory as well. So you have a users share and then the directory for the individual shared as well. Your \\server\%username% will now work in your login script. In a 2000 environement using pre 2000 workstations i have had to do this.

2000 with 2000 workstations
Groups policies. In the user section under logon/logoff these is a setting called Connect home directory to root of the share. Enabling and disabling this setting affects how w2k treats the home directory you have assigned to the individual. This setting applyed correctly will resolve your map root problem

Bert