Net Use

Hi

We run a bat logon script to map network drives using the "net use" command.

At the moment it looks like this

rem Define Network Map Drives

net use * /DELETE /y
net use H: "\\server\sys"
net use P: "\\server\sys1"

This obviously results in users seeing an H and P drive on their systems:

sys on 'File Server (server)' (H
sys1 on 'File Server (server)' (P

Is it possible to have it show a custom name like below?

sys on 'File Server (server)' (H:Templates)
sys1 on 'File Server (server)' (Projects)

:edit: My apologies if this should rather go under the "Windows Server" section

 

Apparently the "label" command does not work,
"Label writes to the partition table. There are no partition tables with mapped drives. So that command can't be used. "

but I found the following:

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-2000/rename-mapped-drives/42894.html

I still have to check on my system

1) map share with net use .........
2) immediately following run this:

regedit /s \\servershare\patch.reg

The patch.reg file has to be specific for the mapped share (I had to create 10).

The patch.reg file contains the following:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints\S\_LabelFromReg]
"Version "=dword:00000005
"LastUpdate "=dword:00091cb0
"Cache "=hex:43,00,65,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,20,00,6f,00,66,00,20,00,\
45,00,78,00,63,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,65,00,6e,00,63,00,65,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

The structure is as follows:

Key: USER\Soft\MS\Windows\Current\Explorer\MountPoints\S\_LabelFromReg
( "S" is the letter of the mapped drive. Corresponds to whatever drive letter is assigned with net use)

Version:
Works with any number greater than 1 it seems.

Last Update:
(not important)

Cache:
This is the string which will "label" the mapped drive. Is required to be in hex form so you will need a converter. (*note* if you replace the Cache key with a string type key named Cache it will convert to hex for you.)

Now my login script looks like the following:
#psuedocode#

ifmember group1
if error level 1 goto next
net use s: \\server\deptshare
regedit /s \\server\folder\group1.reg
:next
ifmember group2
if error level 1 goto next
net use s: \\server\deptshare
regedit /s \\server\folder\group2.reg
:next
...

 

Thanks, but apparently label doesn't work on mapped network drives because:

Label writes to the partition table. There are no partition tables with mapped drives. So that command can't be used.

but I did find this. Still trying to make it work on our network.

1) map share with net use .........
2) immediately following run this:

regedit /s \\servershare\patch.reg

The patch.reg file has to be specific for the mapped share (I had to create 10).

The patch.reg file contains the following:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints\S\_LabelFromReg]
"Version "=dword:00000005
"LastUpdate "=dword:00091cb0
"Cache "=hex:43,00,65,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,20,00,6f,00,66,00,20,00,\
45,00,78,00,63,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,65,00,6e,00,63,00,65,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

The structure is as follows:

Key: USER\Soft\MS\Windows\Current\Explorer\MountPoints\S\_LabelFromReg
( "S" is the letter of the mapped drive. Corresponds to whatever drive letter is assigned with net use)

Version:
Works with any number greater than 1 it seems.

Last Update:
(not important)

Cache:
This is the string which will "label" the mapped drive. Is required to be in hex form so you will need a converter. (*note* if you replace the Cache key with a string type key named Cache it will convert to hex for you.)

Now my login script looks like the following:
#psuedocode#

ifmember group1
if error level 1 goto next
net use s: \\server\deptshare
regedit /s \\server\folder\group1.reg
:next
ifmember group2
if error level 1 goto next
net use s: \\server\deptshare
regedit /s \\server\folder\group2.reg
:next
...