I don't have any silver bullet for you. But I have been following this thread with much interest... ummm... It seems as if you have the folder create and file restore bit covered-off, and the pieces missing are...

1) Create share
2) Permission share
3) Change usrmgr settings

Being a huge OLE fan - if I were in your shoes - I'd probably look at running an automated ADSI script against the SAN Server. ADSI can cover-off items 1 and 3 (ADSI supports NT4 as well). But the permissioning part is not supported by the WinNT service provider. But like you mentioned - all this can be done equally as well using command line utilities...

But I was curious at Popovk's suggestion that you use RMTSHARE... have you gone down that road yet ?

Maybe we should just gang-up and write a text-file (or dir-file) driven admin script that uses NET and RMTSHARE ?

-Shawn

[ 18 July 2001: Message edited by: Shawn ]