Home drive not mapping correctly 1

[DanIT]

I'm migrating to a Win2K server from NT4. On the D drive, I have a Home share, and under that I have folders for users. For example, the path to my folder is:

\\server\home\DROTHBA

In User Manager for NT4, that is the path I have specified for my home (P) drive.

However, when I log in my P drive points to the "Home" directory, where I then have to open my individual folder.

I would like it to point directly to my folder, not the "home" one. Any ideas where I am going wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[brontosaurus]

you'll have to place the share point directly on DROTHBA. NT will not map more than one directory down the tree.

 

[DanIT]

Some users still have their home folders on the old server, and they map directly to their folder, not the "home" folder.

The clients are Win2K pro.

 

[brontosaurus]

and your client is W2K pro?

 

[DanIT]

Yes.

 

[brontosaurus]

OK. so if you go to a command prompt from your login session and issue a :

NET USE * \\server\home\drothba

does that work?

 

[DanIT]

I apologize for the delay...

I typed that at a command prompt and it mapped a drive directly to my "drothba" folder on the server.

Dan

 

[brontosaurus]

no problem.
well, if that works, there must be an error somewhere in user manager?

 

[Sleigher]

have you tried mapping using %username% assuming the directory is the same as the username?

I know it's a bit obtuse but I remember weird things like that with NT4....

\\server\home\%username%

*shrugs*

Sleigher

 

[DanIT]

Sleigher - that did the trick. The system resolves it to the drive with the users name (ie when I go back into User Manager it has their user name instead of %username%), but it maps directly into their drive.

Thanks!