Re: Browsing Active Directory from the Client! How?

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:37:13 -0500

"gemel" <jonel@glenavon1.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:6fpqf0tak38omdpu50kfma0t81vkgj04i1@4ax.com...
> There is a lot of talk about using the client to access Active
> Directory by browsing and connecting to resources. Well I find that
> this is good in Active Directory Users and Computers with Find. But I
> want my users to be able to map to network drives from XP clients. The
> way I see it at the moment is that searching is still network based as
> it was before. I can find printers in Active Directory. But what about
> shares? What about general Active Directory browsing from a client who
> does not have the luxury of Find?

Printers can be added semi-automatically when sharing them.

For Shares, the admin must explicitly add them -- Pick an OU
in AD, right click, ADD....shared directories. 

-- 
Herb Martin
>
>
> Regards
>
> John L

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