Shortcut to home directory for each user to desktop

[tomkat1983]

I don't know why I am having so much trouble with this simple application launch but I have multiple users on single WinXP workstations. I would like to launch a shortcut that points to their home directory. I'm using zfd4 with nw6. I can launch other programs and installs without a problem but the shortcut will not display properly or when executed point to their networked home directory.

Any thoughts or help who be appreciated. Hopefully, I'm just overlooking a application creation step.

 

[Provogeek]

Explain how you have created the app object to place this shortcut to better assit you with this.

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Senior Network Engineer

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[tomkat1983]

The app object is pointing to file H:\ and is associated with the user for it to appear on the desktop. The users are mapped to their H:\ thru a login script.

 

[Provogeek]

Make the app object a force run, then under the Distribution Options tab, create a shortcut to be delivered to the desktop that points to your H: drive. Make it create if does not exsist.

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Brent Schmidt Certified nut case
Senior Network Engineer

http://www.kiscc.com

 

[tomkat1983]

Within Distribution Options I created a shortcut named Home Directory and added the desktop of the local user for the location. The target file is the H:\ and I added an icon name and have it running normal window. In associations I have the user and the force run option checked. The proper operation system is choosen and I still am unable to get this application to work properly. After logging in as my test user, I receive the Application folder on my desktop but not shortcut. When I had the run option pointing to the file m:\, I recieved an icon (not the one chosen) but that did not work either. Any more suggestions?

 

[nevvv]

If you are just trying to open the directory with explorer then i use the following path to executable
%*WinDir%\explorer.exe with the following parameters /e, c:\extract (you obviously could change that to your h drive.

If it is another application like lotus notes which needs to read an ini file before it executes then you need to put that path into the parameters section. eg =h:\lotus etc.

i very often create a batch file to test these things first and just put those parameters in zen. good luck

 

[tomkat1983]

Thank you for all the help, but yesterday instead of creating the shortcut in an application, a friend and I wrote a script creating the shortcut and a bat file that would delete the old shortcut and execute the script. I have the app object associated with the users and the file pointing to the bat file. So far this seems to work the best.