I need again your help. I've an annoying problem with my kix script.
We're mapping our users network drives (for example the HR Team) like this:
; Drives Human Resources Group If INGROUP("G-AT-VIE-HUMAN-RESOURCES") use N: "\\AT-VIENNA-FS03\users\craabe" use O: "\\AT-VIENNA-FS03\HR" use W: "\\AT-VIENNA-FS03\users\photoshop" endif
It works fine but sometimes the mapped drives don't have names. For more explanation please look at my attached screenshot. I don't really know why this happens. When I disconnect all mapped drives and run the script again everything works fine and all the shares have names.
#176476 - 2007-05-2510:02 AMRe: Mapped Shares without Sharename
[Re: PeckMan]
MartMart KiX Supporter
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Loc: The Netherlands
We build in a safety part because users can delete and remap drives. At logon we first delete all drives that we want our user to have. Not the prettiest way but this way you will prevent user from having the wrong drives mapped on there system. In our case deleting the drives ads less then one second to the login script this is acceptable for us.
#176481 - 2007-05-2510:17 AMRe: Mapped Shares without Sharename
[Re: PeckMan]
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Drve names are remembered and stored somewhere in the registry, they only get names if they are manually labelled once. However you could script the mapped drives to be named:
Code:
Function DriveName($Drive,$Name)
Dim $Shell
$Shell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
$Shell.NameSpace($Drive).Self.Name = $Name
EndFunction
DriveName("W:","Everyone Disk")
#176482 - 2007-05-2510:17 AMRe: Mapped Shares without Sharename
[Re: PeckMan]
MartMart KiX Supporter
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Loc: The Netherlands
No it's not normal but I seriously doubt if it is a kix issue. I'd put my money on a workstation issue. Does this happen on all workstations or just one some of them? Does it always happen to the same users or to random users?
Deleting the drives and then mapping them to the share they should point to would be a workaround and it ensures you that your users will have the proper drives mapped.
#176483 - 2007-05-2510:20 AMRe: Mapped Shares without Sharename
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MartMart KiX Supporter
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Loc: The Netherlands
Quote:
.... they only get names if they are manually labelled once ....
Not completely true imho.
A mapped drive always gets a name like "pdrive on server01" where pdrive is the name of the share. Your example sets a user friendly name to the drive.
#176537 - 2007-05-2908:43 AMRe: Mapped Shares without Sharename
[Re: Mart]
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Originally Posted By: Mart
Quote:
.... they only get names if they are manually labelled once ....
Not completely true imho.
A mapped drive always gets a name like "pdrive on server01" where pdrive is the name of the share. Your example sets a user friendly name to the drive.
Exactly, "pdrive on server01" you ALWAYS get that.
PeckMan: yeah basically after each Use command, although on slower networks I usually put that at the end of the loginscript.
