Network share assinged to same user..??help .//

Hello all of you my friend I have a simple or complicated question.....,
I have a network windows 2000 server and 20 workstation all windows 2000 Professionals... now we have like 20 share on the server but only 2 or 3 share for all user but when they open the server they see all shares of course they can not access the rest of the share because of the permissions but they get confused to see all the shares available. Now is there a simple’s way to show the share that a user should see for example ... user Jim... Will see only the share on his name and the DATA share only ...nothing else....?



thanks for any help here ..and for your time..
nice22

 

The most common way that things like that are achieved is using login scripts. I wouldn't encourage users to browse the network, that's asking for trouble imho. If all the drives that are inaccessible to certain users are homes drives, the whole thing becomes really easy. Good example of a login batch file follows:

net use h: /home
net use g: \\fxjnts01\apps
net use i: \\fxjnts01\common
net use j: \\fxjnts01\prints
net use t: \\fxjnts01\tom
CD G:\USERS\%USERNAME%
PATH=%PATH%;Z:.;Y:.

This is my suggestion on taking care of it. If it doesn't work, let me know and I'll see what else I can suggest.

 

And naming all the shares except the data share(s) with a name ending in $ will keep them from showing up when users browse the network.

Or if you have AD and no server version below 2K, take a look Here for what happens if you disable the normal NetBT on your network. Might be just want you want to do.