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Home Network Drives on a 2k Network

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by quackbal, 2004/03/05.

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  1. 2004/03/05
    quackbal

    quackbal Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello,
    On a Windows 2000 Server AD network, we have a few Windows 9x clients.

    How do we set it so that the users get their home directory mapped to Z:\ on logon? A logon script doesnt appear to work.. as %username% doesnt work in 9x. Neither does net use Z: /home

    Any ideas on what to do so users can get their home directory mapped to Z:\ in Win9x?
     
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    KevinSaul

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    By home directory do you mean a file folder used for their own files? What we have set up is a private folder that only the individual users (and the administrator) have access to and we have it mapped as follows.

    In the Active Directory in each users profile under the Profile tab where it says User Profile where it says Login Script: we put the name of the batch file, login.bat which includes the line net use g: \\servername\users\%username% , and under Home Folder we check Connect, select the drive we want (we use G:) and in To: we put the path as \\servername\users\user (users is a shared folder and user is the actual folder name we set up for them).

    That seems to cover Win98 and Win2K, their private folder is created the first time thet login.

    HTH
     

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    quackbal

    quackbal Inactive Thread Starter

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    For me, %username% does not work on Windows 98. It just gets a 'blank' output in the login script. Why is this?
     
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