[tgross]

Hi I need to make a login script for our office which has more than forty employees. The login script is to map their personal shared drive folder. Is there a way to do this even though there are more than twenty six people?

[Scleros]

Use the same drive letter for each person's personal share. Also, the drive limit may be less than 26 due to local drives.

Example:
Bob's login script maps Z: to \\Server\Users\Bob
Mary's login script maps Z: to \\Server\Users\Mary
Tina's login script maps Z: to \\Server\Users\Tina

The username can be provided in the script with %username%.

[EyeNoNothing]

Are you running windows active directory? If so, you can map home folders through the AD profile without having to mess with the login script.

[tgross]

I am running active directory. Its used on the Readynas that the shares are located on. I was thinking of making shares for every department. Ie: finance. And under finance have everyone's individual folder there. Map each finance user, the finance folder that has there own sub folder with in it. Would that work? This way I wouldn't have to use so many letters. Thanks

[ScottGem]

No, Scleros is giving you the correct method. Each user uses the same letter to access their personal share. Creating departmental folders is unnecessary. If you want to organize by department do that in AD.

What happens if an employee changes department are you going to move the folder?

[tgross]

So if I make the same login script for each user save it in the user profile in the active directory, but substitute the user name and folderand use the same letter it will work? So when they login it won't give an error message that the drive letter is in use already? By the way thanks for everyone's help with this, I'm a beginner helpdesk technician and am learning new things everyday!Thanks, Tom

[ScottGem]

It would only create an error if they already have another drive mapped to that letter. So you do need to find a free letter for the drive. But generally mappings are controlled by the network admin and users aren't allowed to create their own without permission. Also network mappings are done before user mappings. So it's the user mapping that would be flagged as conflicting.

[tgross]

great so I should use like z or something then right?No one ever uses that one if they are mapping there own.

[ScottGem]

How about U for User.

[EyeNoNothing]

If you want to skip editing the login script, you can create the home folder and map it using Active Directory.

Open the user object in AD and click on the profile tab where you would assign the login script. Here you can select the drive letter for the home folder and specify the path (ie \\readynas\users\%username%)

If the folder does not exist, AD will create it. If the folder does exist, AD will ask if you want to give the current user rights to the folder.