nailed the home directory issue, now trying to figure out how to use a group variable (if that is even the right term to use! I am not sure).

here is what I have so far (and it works...and the @homeshr does NOT work for some reason, on Win98 anyway):

$s1="\\server1\"
$hdrive=$s1+@userid
use H: $hdrive

now I want to add something like:

$g="\\server\dir2"
$gdrive=$g+@groupvariable
use G: $gdrive

where "\\server\dir2" is the shared parent directory, called Groups, and under this shared Groups directory are several different directories, each shared for a different global group of users. So if UserA is in the PER group, then somehow (maybe some macro like @comment?) would know that the group for UserA here was PER, and then G: would map to \\server\Groups\PER.

or perhaps @Primarygroup would work?

Thanks,
scsigrrrl99