Share name problem

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Woohoo, just set up my first ever AD install, I was feeling pretty pleased
with myself yesterday.

But, an irksome quirk threatens this warm inner glow, and I find myself
turning to you knowledgeable types for advice. I tried the networking group
without response.

I have two servers and a number of clients. Servers run Win2000 Server with
Active Directory and the clients all XP Pro SP2. The backup domain controller
contains the shared network drives, and these are allocated by group as
normal. I use a program called kickstart which allows me to map network
drives on the clients on the basis of their group membership with the usual
scripting commands e.g.

use w: "\\servername\sharedfoldername"

The script is called by login.bat

Nothing unusual here, but some of the clients do not show the shared folder
names, only the drive letters for some of the folders. For instance, it might
show "Home on server2 (H:)" for one share and just "W:" for another. I can
find no common factor as a causal link between the folders, clients or user
permissions to explain why this might be so.

I know this seems trivial, but I have a lot of users who's PC skills are
less than ideal (like mine), and it's much easier for them to remember to put
stuff in the "process" drive than "W:" for example.

If anyone could give me a pointer as to where to sniff next, I'd appreciate
it.

Thanks

Alec Wood
 
This appears to be related to the method the drives are mapped.

I mapped three drives to the same share, three ways:
1) using "net use" from the command line.
2) using the "Map Network drive" from explorer
3) using WshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive from a vbs script.

Both the vbs and the GUI (methods, 3 & 2) display the drives as:

(X:) sharename on 'description (servername)'

The "net use" method (method 1) displayed the drive as:
(X:) Network Drive.

It's been awhile since I used kixstart, but my guess is their method is
closer to the netuse than WshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive

My test was done on XP sp2 against a fileshare on a windows 2000
machine.

Regards,
Tim.Olsen
 
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