Mapping Drive Z

Johan Meiring jjm at iname.com
Mon Aug 9 22:20:31 GMT 1999


Chris,

How about writing two batch files:

login1.bat
---------------
net use L: \\SERVER\netlogon
L:\login2.bat


login2.bat
----------
net use z: /d
...
rest of login file
...
...


>Date:   Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:08:28 -0600
>From:   "Chris Tooley" <ctooley at joslyn.org>
>To:     <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
>Subject: RE: Mapping Drive Z
>
>The only problem with that is that we are converting from a Novell server
>where all of the Database directories for the 30-40 databases in house were
>stored were mapped to drive Z: as well as about 8 billion other shortcuts,
>all of which will be broken if we map the new share of those things to a
>different drive letter.  This wouldn't be a problem if we had users that
>understood the concept of changing the driver letter in the shortcuts.
>However, changing 10-20 shortcuts on 50-60 machines would take quite a lot
>of time, especially when you don't have a clue what those shortcuts are.

>
>Chris Tooley



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