First, it wasn't my intention to hijaak this thread. Sorry for that....

Let me clarify myself by explaining the whole story:

We supply our users with a driveletter connection to their department data. But requests have come in to give users access to multiple department folders. One option is to connect multiple driveletters, but we have only 26 and we have little driveletters left. The second option is to map the drive one share up, but then the user can see ALL subfolders (departments) including the ones the users doesn't have access to. It is impossible to hide these folders by changing NTFS permissions our other tricks.

Then I came up with another solution. What if we map a driveletter to an empty folder in the users roaming profile and copy the appropriate folder shortcuts (to different shares on the network) to that mapping during logon. Then the user only sees the folders he needs to see, and is still using only one driveletter. This would be a very flexible solution as there is no limit to the amount of shortcuts. The problem with folder shortcuts however is that distribution or creation through a logonscript is a bit of a problem. Ordinary shortcuts won't do as browsing back and forth through the folderstructure goes bad as soon as you go back up the structure. Then the user will see the entire network instead of the path he came from.

So using folder shortcuts is a workaround for the problem of not being able to hide folders in a Windows network.

The not hiding part is a problem that comes up frequently on network admins forums. If we can create a workaround as described many would be happy I think. At least I would!

So indeed I mean the shortcuts as one can create under My Network places, but I want to create them through a script OR be able to copy the shortcuts I make myself during logon. Both solutions are a problem for me.

I hope this clarifies the goal of my questions.

Don