Re: Assigning letters when mapping drives

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aa
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:11:25 -0000

Thanks,
I've n ever heard of login scripts - where can I read about them?

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, a drive letter may have been manually mapped, or someone may have
> assigned it to a local device. Try to keep the local device mappings
> consistent across computers, as you can't overwrite them in your login
> script (nor should you want to).
>
> I usually do
> -------------------------
> net use g: /del
> net use s: /del
> net use y: /del
>
> net use g: \\server\share /persistent:no
> net use s: \\server\share /persistent:no
> net use y: \\server\share /persistent:no
> -------------------------
>
> ...to get rid of any locally mapped network drives.
>
>
> aa wrote:
> > Thanks,
> > So when I gettong a message "cannot access a drive. The letter is in
> > use, I should look to the cocal computer only to see if I have
> > duplicate latters? Someone here said that a letter can be taken by
> > some internal process - is this a case?
>
>

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