Network Drive Mapping 1

[JGOil]

Is there a way that I could map a network drive to the My Documents folder remotely. I want to be able to do this for 100+ computers and would like to do by using an existing batch file that runs as a login script for the users. Anyone know how I can accomplish this?

 

[LloydSev]

yeah.. but each person must have permission to access that folder.

net use <driveletter> \\pcname\sharename

so as an example..

net use P: \\John\Documents

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[JGOil]

You're getting what I want to do mixed up. I actually want to make the my documents folder on everyone's computer go to there home directory. I want the target location of the my documents folder to change to the home directory. I think I found a way of doing it with a group policy, but I'm having a problem with the group policy applying to the test user I created.

 

[LloydSev]

ahh I see..

You can just right click on the person's My Document's folder and tell it to goto that mapped drive.

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[JGOil]

Yeah, but I want to do this for over 100 users. It would be really crappy to have to go to each individual computer to make that change. Besides that though, I'm having an issue with the policy applying. The computer I'm testing it on won't take the policy changes.

 

[Jump1ng]

I know this is the Windows 2000 forum but just incase your test pc has windows xp installed on it...

You need to turn of fastboot to make windows xp behave like windows 2000, if you don't do this you might have problems with policy's not taking effect.

To do this create a policy that turns of fastboot
Under computerconfiguration\administrative templates\system\logon\

enable this setting
Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon

If it is a windows 2000 computer just ignore this post.



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[JGOil]

I'm actually using Windows 2000 as the test platform. I haven't had a problem with XP applying group policies before, yet I do I have a test computer with XP that won't apply a group policy that does work on XP machines. I haven't had time to mess with what I'm doing. I'm going to try another machine and see if the group policy applies. So far that one XP machine and 2000 machine are the only machines that have given me problems with applying group policies.

 

[dblake15]

Go to Folder Redirection for My Documents folder on the GP Editor.

Also you can run gpupdate on the XP machine and Secedit on the 2000 machine to see if they come in.

If not then run GP results from the GPMC program.

 

[JGOil]

Thanks for the info.