Home drive mapping problem

[iwebster]

I have set up a users share on our new Win2k3 server and setup the home drive setting in the users properties dialog in AD as follows:

H: maps to \\server1\users\%username%

This automatically sets up a home directory and sets the correct permissions. However when an XP user logs on the H: drive only maps to the share name \\server1\users

I knew this was an issue with W9x but not XP.

Has anyone come across this issue

Thanks

 

[NickFerrar]

Have you created a share for each specific user, I thought it just creates the user folder rather than the user share as well?

 

[GuyThomas]

Here is a method to map with a vbscript

' VBScript.
' Purpose of script to map a network drive to Jim objNet, strUserName

Set objNet = CreateObject("Wscript.Network&quot

strUserName =objNet.UserName

objNet.MapNetworkDrive "J:", "\\AtoZserver\home\" & strUserName

For pure NET / DOS commands, I once got mapping to the %username% part to work using the SUBST command, but I much prefer VBScripts.

Tip do be very careful with the syntax, a \ here or " there will cause it to fail.

See more here

http://computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/Logon_HomeDirAdv.htm

 

[dazzabroughton]

We had the same issue. I got round it by giving each user full or change permssion to only their own folder, so they can't even see the top level of other user's folders.