Re: Can a machine be placed in multiple OUs

From: Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP] (cwshultz_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:32:32 -0400

No. An object can only reside in one 'container' at a time. So, if it is
in the 'Workstations' Organizational Unit it can not be a member of any
other container at that time. It can be move to another container. But it
can reside in only one container at a time. Think about this for a second.
Each object has a Distinguished Name ( the DN: ).

I am not sure what difference it makes as to what machine the users are
logging on - and where that computer object resides - and what mapped
network drives they get. The mapped network drives are usually handled by
the logon script. And that is something that is handled on the user side of
things ( logon, logoff ) and not necessarily on the computer side of things
( startup, shutdown ).

You might want to look into assigning mapped network drives based on group
membership ( for example, the members of the Marketing group get
\\servername\marketing mapped to the N:\ drive while the members of the
Finance group get \\servername\finance mapped to the N:\ drive ). Please
take a look - as one example - at http://www.rlmueller.net. He has several
examples of how to accomplish this.

Does this answer your question?

HTH,

Cary

"John" <jpolisch@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:7db81585.0410220610.4ef0d584@posting.google.com...
> I am try to setup a system and put it into 2 differnet OUs becuase two
> uses of the system need access to differnet file shares. After appling
> the GPO I am getting errors trying to add the system to a differnet OU
> . Is this possible?

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