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Title: Drive Mapping?
Post by: Bob on September 14, 2002, 08:00:39 PM

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

Title: Re: Drive Mapping?
Post by: hd_mueller on September 14, 2002, 08:47:30 PM

I experienced a similar problem; I am using nt. In order to logon I needed to logon on to NT with the requested username / pw for the i-bay. The "connect as" did not work in my case; it works only for real nt shares and for novell.

Somebody else has an idea how to "connect as" with a different user name / pw

Title: Re: Drive Mapping?
Post by: NickR on September 15, 2002, 11:53:32 PM

"NET USE L: \machine_name\drive_letter:\folder_name"

That's you problem - the concept of "drive letter:" doesn't exist on a remote machine, you have to use the share name, so the format becomes:

NET USE L: \machine\share\folder

Try this at the DOS prompt to verify that you can connect before putting it in the logon script.  It has nothing to do with the e-smith at this point, it's purely a windoze thing.

Title: Re: Drive Mapping?
Post by: Bob on September 16, 2002, 11:47:52 AM

Nick,
Worked perfectly I should have picked that up myself thankyou very much.