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#36335 - 2003-02-12 04:57 PM Re: Windows NT network drive mapping
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Windows 9x does not and will never support deep mapping (, unless you use DFS/Novell ?).
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#36336 - 2003-02-13 12:43 AM Re: Windows NT network drive mapping
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The default user directories created by the user manager are not shares & thus are not easily accessible with any non MS OS or an MS OS before Win2000.

With NT4 & above you don't need to map the user directory. Let the user manager do it. It has a special hook builtin that allows NT4 clients to hook up automatically.

Win9x was developed before MS introduced this new concept & thus can not work with these default pseudo-shares. As Howard says you must create actual shares for Win9x clients to use them. If you do this this your script will function for all OS.

As jens says Novell re-wrote the network re-director for Win9x so in a Netware environments you can do what you are trying to do. I not sure, but I believe that I read somewhere that installing AD on Win9x will allow one to deep map. Having never tried it myself, I can not verify this.

[ 13. February 2003, 21:18: Message edited by: Jack Lothian ]
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#36337 - 2003-02-13 04:24 AM Re: Windows NT network drive mapping
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the deep mapping you are thinking of is DFS. the 95 clients still can't map deep.
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