Win9x - mapping network drives

[jase25]

Hi all,

I am having problems with the following scenario: -

We have a 2003 Server and serveral Win98 clients. The home directories on the server are in a share \\servername\homes

The full path of the the individuals home directories is \\servername\homes\pupils\firstname.surname - the firstname.surname corresponding to the username of the login account. In the login script, I have set the variables using putinenv.exe and winset.exe, but when attempting to run the script on the client it will not connect (something regarding error 50 in the dos shell). When I attempt to connect to the users home directory using the run command (i.e. net use x:...), I get the same message, however I can browse to the UNC path using the run command.

Any ideas? I know the variable commands are working because it resolves the %username% variable fine, it just refuses to map it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance

 

[aznluvsmc]

Are you typing in net use x:\\servername\homes\pupils\%username%

Steven S.
MCSA
A+, Network+, Server+, i-Net+

 

[aznluvsmc]

Sorry there should be a space between the colon and the double backslash.

Steven S.
MCSA
A+, Network+, Server+, i-Net+

 

[karlisi]

Win9x cannot map network drives to subdirectories of share. You should map to '\\servername\homes' or share each user's directory and map to '\\servername\firstname.surname'

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Karlis
ECDL; MCP

 

[jase25]

I was typing the correct syntax Steven, it just wasn't working thanks anyway.

Karlis, thanks your idea did work. I now have 230 user directories to share! Any ideas if I can script this?

thanks again