Topic: Login / map drives question

[Sidney]

Hello,

I am in need of help setting up login scripts to map drives to folder on my SME  v5

This is how my network is setup.
I have a SME v5 that is my email/web/firewall server.
Also I have a NT 4.0 Server that is my PDC / RAS.
There are 3 windows 98 workstation I would like to setup a log script that will map a home folder for each user and to map a public folder that they share.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

[Ray Mitchell]

Do a search in the forums. It has been answered extensively many times before. Try searching for netlogon or login scripts.
SME supports netlogon.bat (and home folders) and you can set up basic drive mapping etc there
Regards
Ray Mitchell

[FredS]

Or if you like

You can set it via your server manager pannel with the following addon

e-smith-loginscript-0.2-2.noarch.rpm

You can find the download here

http://www.drbig.co.uk/sdownload/index.php?catid=20

[jose velez]

e-smith-loginscript-0.2-2.noarch.rpm does not work with 5.1.2.  I tested on 5.1.2 and 5.5.  It works perfect with 5.5.

[FredS]

It will

I have it running on my office server.


You also need to have Roaming profiles: set to yes if not you get an error.

[Bob]

I have the logon rpm and it runs fine with drive mappings from any of the I - Bays on e-smith.
My question is how do you get it to map a drive from another machine, I have tried the standard "NET USE  L: \machine_name\drive_letter:\folder_name" but does not map the drive.

I have added the machine name in hostnames and addresses so that it will resovle by name also tried by IP as it has a static address.

Any info would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[Ray Mitchell]

Bob
Do you mean on another Windows machine. If so, have you shared the drive or folder on that PC. Your "net use" statement should refer to the shared drive or folder name, not its actual name.
ie net use L: \winpc\drivesharename
or
net use L: \winpc\foldersharename

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Bob]

Thanks Ray,
I finally got it worked out I had made a mistake in the way I was mapping it.
But what I did find out is that you can map for example E$ and that will map the drive without sharing it to everyone.

Thanks again.

[Ray Mitchell]

Yes Bob
I believe that is a hidden share though, the Win system has shared that drive by default, exactly for the purpose of being invisible to users but known to an administrator.
Ray

[Charlie Brady]

Ray Mitchell wrote:

> I believe that is a hidden share though, the Win system has
> shared that drive by default, exactly for the purpose of
> being invisible to users but known to an administrator.

Note that although it doesn't appear in the browse lists, that doesn't give any guarantee that it isn't accessible to users.

Charlie