Mandatory Profile under Group Policy.

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Simon Lew

I have a mandatory porfile that I use for students that map a set of drives
for access to data and programs. I recently adding anothe drive to the list
and for some reason it will not mount as the others do. It has been more
than two weeks since I made the change and I even restarted the server. Any
tips would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Simon
 
Simon,

Is this mapped network drive part of the logon script that the students are
getting? I am not sure ( and please pardon my ignorance ) that a mandatory
profile makes any difference here. How are the students getting the other
mapped network drives? Do you have the logon.bat or logon.vbs file that we
can examine?

Also, what is the NOS ( server side ) and the OS ( client side ) involved?
Are you mapping network drives based on group membership?

Cary
 
The network drive is a part of the logon script and I've been running it for
nearly two years; mounting approx six drives. All I did was add another
drive to the existing logon.cmd file.

Win2 K Server
Win2K an XP client. Sorry I didn't provide this info in the original post; I
guess I was anxious to post.

Simon.
 
Simon,

It would be very useful to see the logon.cmd that you have. You could
change the server name for and share names if you so choose. I guess the
question is: do the users have access ( at least read ) to the new shared
folder? Do you get any errors?

Do the scripts run on the WIN2000 clients but not on the WINXP clients? I
would bet that this is the case. Furthermore, if you log off and then back
on ( on the WINXP Pro systems ) I bet that it works? Try this. It is the
way that WINXP Pro works ( fast logon.... ).

HTH,

Cary
 
The last line is the one in question. The others have been working just
fine.
I have no problem mapping manually, but that's no fun.
W2k and XP behave the same.

Fikename:Students.cmd
net use S: \\Canterbury01\Canterbury$\Students$
net use P: \\Canterbury01\Canterbury$\Student_Programs
net use v: \\Canterbury01\Renaissance\RLData
net use N: \\Canterbury01\CornerStone
net use x: \\Canterbury01\Spanish
net use G: \\Canterbury01\GeoSkills\GeoSkills Intermediate
 
Simon,

It looks like there is a space in the middle of the word. I have never had
that before. I will test this later tonight to see if that is the problem.
The fact that you can manually map to this leads me to believe that this is
not a problem. Also, permissions should not be a problem then, either.

Do you get any errors?

Cary
 
Hey Simon-

Can you just share GeoSkills Intermediate as something on it's own?... or
change it to \\canterbury01\GeoSkills\GeoSkillsIntermediate (no space)?
I'm thinking that the DOS command is looking at it as a separate argument,
like it would be expecting a switch to come after GeoSkills (like
/persistent:y).

Let us know how that goes, if you can try it out

Ken
 
Simon Lew said:
The last line is the one in question. The others have been working just
fine.
I have no problem mapping manually, but that's no fun.
W2k and XP behave the same.
Click to expand...
net use G: \\Canterbury01\GeoSkills\GeoSkills Intermediate
Click to expand...

You need to enclose the path in double quotes due to the space character.
eg. net use G: "\\Canterbury01\GeoSkills\GeoSkills Intermediate"
 
I will try it with no space.

Thank you
Andrew Mitchell said:
You need to enclose the path in double quotes due to the space character.
eg. net use G: "\\Canterbury01\GeoSkills\GeoSkills Intermediate"
Click to expand...
 
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