Drive mappings

[Anthony Ewell]

Hi Michael,

   I got to thinking a little more about what you were asking.
I have had a similar problem but had forgot that I'd
fixed it.

  Under NT4 and w2k, you have a user variable called
USERNAME.  I use it in my "net use" like you do.  But, W9x
has no such variable.  

  But, Samba to the rescue, if you are using the "[homes]"
declaration with "path=/export/%U" in your smb.conf,
you can just have your win9x cleints mount "homes". 
For example:

          net use U: \\mail\homes

You don't get the comment of the user name on the drive
letter (you get "homes" instead) but they still get their
individual drives mapped to their home directory.

    If you are mounting NT4 or w2k, go ahead and use:
            net use U: \\mail\%USERNAME%

  Good luck!

--Tony



Anthony Ewell wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
>     Try:   net use U: \\mail\%U%
> 
> Windows (DOS) likes a "%" on both sides of the variable
> (I know, it's weird, but that how it works).  Make sure you have
> something assigned to %U%
> 
> 
> --Tony
> 
> 
> Michael Blinn wrote:
> 
>> Hello again list!
>> 
>> I'm attempting to use the following command in a startup batch file:
>> 
>> net use U: \\mail\%U
>> 
>> however when win9* runs this file on logging in, it tries to map
>> \\mail\u
>> 
>> Why isn't samba preprocessing this directive? (\\mail is NOT the name of
>> the samba server doing the login authetication!)
>> 
>> Please respond to mblinn at peopleplaces.org -- my mail client may be
>> configured screwy with its reply-to address.
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>  Michael Blinn
>>  People Places, Inc.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
>