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#48772 - 2000-01-06 11:12 AM Mapping to a sub-directory of a share
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I have been looking for a solution to map Win9x users home directories to a sub-directory of a share on my NT server. (i.e. \\SERVER\USERSSHARE\USERNAME). I read on microsoft.com knowledgebase (Q17532) that I can use KiXtart to simulate MAP ROOT which effectively does what I want, but have also read on kixtart.to that this is not possible. Could someone please clear this up for me, and if it is possible, show me a script snippet of how I would achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Johnathan

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#48773 - 2000-01-06 11:41 AM Re: Mapping to a sub-directory of a share
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95 cannot map below root... ie as SUBST in NT will. This is an issue with the 95/98 network redirector.

The best that you can do is make a bunch of hidden shares (usually used for home drives)

Other than that, Upgrade to NT. It really makes a huge difference(improvement??) when everyone is running the same game

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#48774 - 2000-01-07 12:24 AM Re: Mapping to a sub-directory of a share
Anonymous
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Hi slunk

As mentioned above hidden shares is the way to go for deep root mapping for Win9x systems. Once you have your hidden shares setup insert the following in your script, changing the obvious of course.

$drive="\\servername\"+@hiddensharename+chr(36)
USE X: $drive

The $drive variable can be called what you want.

I hope this helps.
Rgds

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Don Davidson
Network Engineer
http://www.insight-media.co.uk



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#48775 - 2000-01-07 12:27 AM Re: Mapping to a sub-directory of a share
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Ooops

The above should read:

$drive="\\servername\hiddensharename$$"
USE X: $drive

Too much Y2K beer!

TTFN
Don

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#48776 - 2000-03-10 09:29 AM Re: Mapping to a sub-directory of a share
Anonymous
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I use:

use x: "\\server1\"+@userid+"$"

and have hidden shares that correlate to the user names. I've also got the shares set so that only the users have access to the username$ but I, as administrator, have access via the \\server1\home share to their folders.

Hope this helps

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