Using VBScript to map a: drive

[jbyrne]

Can anyone give me an example of a tasty bit of script that will map the users a: drive

Assuming all PCs on the network have their A Drive shared as "Adrive" could you do something like setting a constant called "COMPUTERNAME" which picks up the PCs Name and then does something like "use z: \\COMPUTERNAME\Adrive"

This will then have the Z drive on that PC as a mapped drive to that PCs floppy disk drive.

I hope this makes sense to a VB expert out there.

Thanking you in advance....

 

[DanaHallenbeck]

assuming the drive is shared as adrive:

Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network&quot

ComputerName = WshNetwork.ComputerName
WshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "Z:", "\\" & computername & "\adrive"

Hope this helps.

Dana Hallenbeck

 

[jbyrne]

Thank You, this is exactly what I was looking for

 

[jbyrne]

Is it possible to map a user's local a: drive in their terminal server session? I am not bothered if it is mapped as a:, it can be k: as long as it is that PCs floppy drive.

I can get my pc to share it's a drive and then, using vbscript, lookup the pc name and map it as the k: drive. However, when I go into Terminal Server 2000, the script doesn't work as WshNetwork.ComputerName looks at the Terminal Server's Computer Name. Is there any way I can get it to look at the client's computer name automatically instead?

 

[DanaHallenbeck]

If the session will always be start from the computer you want to map the drive to, there is a variable in the terminal session called CLIENTNAME that provides the computer name of the attaching computer. You could use something like the following script to get the variable.

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell&quot
Set objEnv = WshShell.Environment("Volatile&quot
compname = objEnv("CLIENTNAME&quot
wscript.echo compname

Hope this helps.

Dana Hallenbeck