With Win9x clients you can not do this from a client machine. Even with WinNT machines this is a problem because you need admin privledges to do this plus the right utilities. On NT machines I have seen suggestions for getting around the admin privledges constraint but they were quite messy. I suggest you develop a special script for creating userid & user-directory at the same time. This will always run from an admin controlled NT machine. I did post such a script utilizing the resource kit a few months ago.

PS. This is not uniquely a Win9x problem rather it is an NT problem. NT can not do "map rooting" or "deep mapping" either. Rather, NT has a trick feature built-in so when NT-workstation talks to NT-server it can connect to special pseudo-share created by NT-server. This special user directory is not a true share & thus not hidable. These special shares are useless with any client other than WinNT or Win2000 clients.

[This message has been edited by JackLothian (edited 08 December 2000).]

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