Comments on: Mapping network drives on clients

By: mikidc

mikidc — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:55:04 +0000

Sixball,

If I can tell those guys what to do, life would be soooo much easier for me, but they are isolated in their “ivory tower”; plus, this is governemt operation. I will try the friendly chat approach if I catch some of them in the halls. I like you idea.
Thank you for the input.
Mickey

By: sixball

sixball — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:29:09 +0000

One last suggestions: Since yall are running on a domain, whats wrong with a Group Policy Object that specifies certain drive maps for all users in a particular group? With a GPO for drive maps, regardless of what PC you log in on, your drive maps will be consistant and connected…

Something your ITS folks can set-up in a matter of minutes…

By: mikidc

mikidc — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:53:05 +0000

Carlos,

Thank you for info. I will definitely read from those sources.
Mickey

By: mikidc

mikidc — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:51:50 +0000

Redyke,

I agree and understand. Before anything is done, I have to send a request to our ITS dept. to ask that they grant access to a user to share drives he will need. Only after I get that request approved and completed, I map the drives on his PC.
Thank you for your input.
Mickey

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:17:17 +0000

Mickey, here are some articles you might want to take a look at: Logon scripts examples to map network drives Creating logon scripts Logon Script FAQ

By: redtyke

redtyke — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:38:38 +0000

Mickey, access to a network share is user based and not only depends on having that share mapped by means of e.g. a logon script, or group policy, but also the user having the correct access permissions to the share in question.
Hope that helps. By the way, XP SP2 went end-of-life in July 2010, you should, if possible, install XP SP3.

By: mikidc

mikidc — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:22:17 +0000

STAFFIT,

Thank you for your input. I am not a network admin. I am a tech support and I have some admin. rights.
I probably do not have rights to do what you are suggesting, but can you give little more detailed info, as to how to do it.

Thank you,
Mickey

By: jaymz69

jaymz69 — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:04:37 +0000

We use a script at my work

By: mikidc

mikidc — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:54:36 +0000

Just a final note,

Since I waste lot of time when I have to map drives (My computer -> map network drives , and then I have to map to alph. letters 8 drives), I will create a batch file with “net use” command for each drive, and run it on the client when I am setting up a new user, or when established user is working on another PC.
It just seems like if network admin. is using the scripts on every client and for every profile, each established user would have shared drives ready for use anytime they log in, regardles of which PC they log in.

Thanx,
Mickey

By: mikidc

mikidc — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:35:26 +0000

Tom,
Thank you for extensive explanation. I can see how this can be quite complex. I have done more reading just for my own knowledge.
Our log in is to network through our PCs. It is the domain that is chosen in options. Our users do not have the rights to log in to the local machine (only admin. users like me).
Our share drives paths are associated through alphabet letter.
Once user is granted rights to certain drives, I have to go into “map network drives” and map the letters to drives he is allowed to use. Once that is done, every time user logs in to his PC (to the network actually), he/she will see the drives in the Explorer. The issue is when they go to different PC.

I am not sure if scripts are used, because, as I said, sometimes they are visible when I log in to another PC to network, and sometimes they are not, and I have to go to “map network drives” and map them.

But anyhow, this appears to be question for our network admin.

Thank you all for the input.

Mickey