Mapping Drives

[dparrott]

Hey all,

I am a network admin for a medium sized company using AD in server 2003 Std. I am also free-lancing for a small company using SBS 2003. The small company has 4 drives being mapped somehow. I have checked the user's properties and there is a batch file that runs a program in the location \\server\clients\setup\setup.exe. I have checked the Group Policy and don't see an Administrative Template allowing for the mapping of drives. I also checked the Startup and Logon areas of the Group Policy to see if there was some other script running. I could not find any evidence of anything else.

The issue is that I created a new user, and they didn't get the drives mapped. Are there any other ways to map a drive in SBS 2003?

I checked the local machine, and did not find anything there (no script in the startup folder) that leads me to believe the drives are mapped by the local machine.

I currently have solved the issue by writing a batch file and placed it in the start up folder to run and map the drive. However, I obviously need to find the drive mapping so that I can fix the current issue and change the settings. The owner wants to change the way they store files (which is a good thing, they don't really have a system right now), and I will have to modify the mapping for that.

Thanks in advance for all the help.

Danny

 

[dparrott]

I would appreciate more information about this also.

Thanks a lot,

Danny

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

In the SBS's Server Management Console, click on the "Internal Web Site" link to see the options for managing the companyweb. If you need further info about this, see:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...f42-fd1f-42b4-939d-68d320164be8.mspx?mfr=true

This is from the documentation that's available in your SBS.



Jeffrey B. Kane
TechSoEasy

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[TechSoEasyMVP]

FYI, for anyone interested, my comment about the SBS team thinking that mapped drives are "old school" came from this interview with the SBS Project Manager, Sean Daniels:

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...b/sean_daniels_2005_small_business_server.wmv

Jeffrey B. Kane
TechSoEasy

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[wahnula]

my comment about the SBS team thinking that mapped drives are "old school" came from this interview with the SBS Project Manager, Sean Daniels

TechSoEasy,

That was an interesting view but no mention of SharePoint as a mapped drive replacement.

BTW what was that guy, fourteen??? Sheesh, I thought I was old when the cops started getting younger than me, now the project manager for SBS 2003 looks like he hasn't shaved yet!

Excuse me while I change my Depends. And I am still intrigued by the possibilities of SharePoint. Good info on the SBS teams blogs page, I might have found the solution to my nagging DST problems. I will continue to study the Web.

Take care

Tony

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

Sorry... I thought I had gotten that from Sean's video, but didn't review it before posting. However, I did get the source of the information correct:

http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2004/11/using-templates-not-your-brain.html

Yeah... he does look young... but he's been managing the SBS team for 4 years now and in my opinion has done a great job of keeping things on track while also being widely available to the user community in order to keep in touch with what's happening.

My revelation of age was actually a bit younger... it was when I noticed that the employees at McDonalds were younger than me. But these days, they're all over 65, so that point of reference has changed.




Jeffrey B. Kane
TechSoEasy

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