Re: How to mount remote shares for all users?

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From: Olav Tollefsen (x_at_y.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 22:55:12 +0100

I don't think you understood exactly what I'm trying to do.

Try to logon to the server as user X and map a remote share to drive letter
F. Then logon to the server as user Y. Now you will see that drive F is not
avaiable to user Y. I would of course be shocked if a drive mapped by one
user would automatically be available to the whole system. The mapping would
need to be made by system in a special way.

I want the drive to be mapped when the system boots and it should be
available to all users. Just like a physical disk would be available to all
users.

It's that simple! Seems like most Windows users have some kind of
"single-user" mindset...

Olav

"recoil@community.nospam" <marc.derider@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1110051611.120471.33730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> It sounds like you simply want to Map a file share
> Open up Explorer on the client. Go to Tools -> Map Network Drive and
> then type in the share name as \\computername\sharename.
>
> Now all programs on the client side can access the file share via the
> drive letter. Remember when setting permissions one should set the
> permissions on the Server and this is done in the "Sharing" tab by
> right clicking on the folder share and clicking on Properties and then
> going to the "Sharing" tab and click on the "Permissions" button.
>
> This works really well when you are part of a domain and all the users
> that will be accessing it are members of the domain. This works a bit
> flakier with Workgroup users.
>
> I hope that I am understanding your problem correctly and I hope this
> helps.
>

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