SBS 2008 Mapping Network Drives

Wil this work for SBS 2008? There is no SBS logon script.

By default, 2008 SBS scripts go in :

C:\Windows\sysvol\sysvol\yourdomain\scripts

Is this what your looking for?

SJS,
I created the script that way ... might be a good idea to change the name though. Old habits die really hard (SBS 4.x days for me).

GTPD,

Please look at the last screenshot in the above trio a little closer. Things have changed.

Philip

worked on this for 2 hours before I realized I had to run gdupdate in order to apply the changes and get the drives to show up!

That had happened to all of us.

the correct command to update the group policies is gpupdate. In case someone tries it and it doesn't work, which it wont.

Also, make sure to have the Group Policy Client Side Extensions update installed on all domain members so that things do not behave strangely!

Philip

MPECSInc, I got through your first step fine.  Second step, not so much.  Your screen cap doesn't show where you are, the top is cut off.  Can you show a full screen cap showing exactly where you're making the edits in the second step?

Ron, I am not sure what you are asking?

The first screenshot is showing Method 1.

The second and third screenshots are showing Method 2.

Philip

iam doing the same thing (method 2) but it seems that i cannot paste my created script on "SysVol GPO GUID\User\Scripts\Logon"  path with an error message "Access Denied"
please advice. Thank you.

Charles, go in through C:\Windows\SysVol

Philip

This definitely works.

I ran Client Side Extensions on xp and 2003 machines
Ran XMLlite on XP machines
Then I basically created a script elsewhere outside of sysvol before I even created the group policy.
I opened GPM, created the policy, edited policy
I clicked on add and then entered the script name
I then clicked on show files.
when the show files directory window opens i just pasted the same named script that i created earlier into that directory.
to be safe, I also ran gpupdate /force on clients
logoff
logon

@Philip, i got it! thank you.

I want to map a drive but I don't know what to choose. Should I choose Create, Update or Replace if I want to map a drive? Thanks.

A better solution is to open AD Users and Computers,
Go to SBS users OU and create shared folder objects here that point to your shares. Now open Group Policy manager and edit SBS Users Policy to  User Config --> Preferences --> Windows Settings --> Drive Maps-->  New
as shown above. This time your drive mappings will show up in the find window and you can assign them.
Run GPUpdate /force, logoff logon and drive mappings are working. No tedious scripts and all that rigmarole.

I apologize, I hope that it is ok that I add a question to this thread.  I have created them the way that VNI-Joe has explained it.  However, is there a way that we can make these user, or at least, group specific?

I don't want the whole office to have the same mappings.  

I will be looking in the meantime, and maybe I will stumble across it, but if it is a quick answer for you, I would appreciate it.  

Thanks

You could create a new policy with the mappings that you want and only give the users/groups who need the mappings the right to run the policy. There may be a better way then that but that works.

Where do you actually go in the interface to " SBSUsers OU create and link a GPO "?
Thanks

Is there a way of Mapping a Drive using GPO to a SAN Disc similar to a shared drive?