Automate the creation of shares?

[dan]

Is is possible to automate the creation of shares through a batch or script file?
Or some other way?

 

[brontosaurus]

NET SHARE

has to be run on the machine that will hold the share, and you have to create the folder first. (but that can be scripted as well)

 

[dan]

This is what I am looking for. I want to create home directories for 100s of students. Creating the share with NET SHARE worked well. I can set the permissions with CACLS. However, The permissions for the new share permit everyone to map to the share. Can I also script the permissions for the share so that only the user can map to his/her own share? (Similar to the way I have scripted the file permissions). Thanks for such a quick response!
Dan

 

[mikecx]

Would a roaming profile work? The calss I worked on had it setup where everyone has a X: drive mapped to the server in a \\servername\files\%username% . I have heard that you can do with to all the profiles in a certain OU with batch files.

 

[dan]

I can map the users through the logon script to \\server\users\%USERNAME%. The problem is I have to manually create the shares. We used Novell last year which automatically created the home directory when the user was created. I am looking for something comparable.
Dan Dan

 

[mikecx]

It's in the users profile. It automatically creates the mapping of X: or Z: or whatever letter you choose to \\servername\users\%username%. It creates the folder on the server's hd and everytime the user logs in it makes the mapping for them. I think the tool to make a batch file to do it is located in the 2k Server Resource Kit. I may be wrong on that one.

 

[dan]

We are currently not using Profiles. Most of our clients are Win98. A few will be XP. Some students might login from an XP machine in their dorm and a W98 machine in the lab. I need a solution that will work across both platforms.
Dan

 

[brontosaurus]

Hmm...that's a tough one. Is this helpful at all..?

http://www.pedestalsoftware.com/ntsec/scripts/wsh/

 

[mikecx]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q320043&

Seems like what you are trying to. Make sure to read the whole thing though.