Windows 98 Clients and Win2k Server

[RobPa]

Hi.

We're in the middle of moving from Novell 4.11 to windows 2000 server. I'm trying to write a login script for our clients (all are Windows 98 SE). I've had no success. All I want to do is map some network drives depending on what groups your a member of.

I tried a .bat file with

net use

, the script runs, maps the drives but they don't show up in my computer.

I'm currently trying to do it with WSH but I don't even think the script is running. All I see is a dos box flash on and off real quick. Once again no drive mappings in my computer.

I'm also trying to implement home directories for users. From what I've read I guess I have to set up a seperate dir for every user, set the permissions and map that share. Is this how you do it? Is there a better way.

Thanks for your help.

Rob

 

[Zelandakh]

Several.

To do loads of home directories, set the login script name first. Set their home directory as \\servername\sharename\%username%. Once you hit ok, the username folders should be created.

Create the login script with net use f: /home in it.

As to scripts dependent on the groups you cannot do it - either one for the whole company or one for each team. The only other way to do it is to use kixtart.

 

[RobPa]

Thanks for your post.

Here's what I've figured out.

The only way that I could map a drive and have it show up in My Computer (Other that Explicitly mapping it on every computer) is using kickstart. Other than a funny bug that wouldn't let me map a drive to drive z. Everything has worked fine.

Since there aren't many users on our network I'm going to create a seperate share for every user on the network as their home directory. Net use /home won't directly map the users home directory on 9x machines so I'm using kixtart to do it.

use U: "\\Server\" + @userid

Rob