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Remotely mapping a drive for a user

Does anyone know a way to do the following using vbscript or similar?

We often get requests to map drives or printers for users,
I've written a VBscript that lets me connect someone to a printer without actually touching their PC (using rundll32 printui.dll),

I want to do the same thing for drive mappings:
I want to sit at PC#1 and run a script that connects PC#2 to a drive on Server #3

I could do it by changing the login script, but I'm looking for a way to do one-off drive mappings without touching the user's PC,

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks
Keith

KVR_Solutions

This is pretty simple:

If you are in a domain environment or have administrative rights, you can specify a batch file to run at logon or to be placed in the startup folder. You wouldn't need to touch everyones PC.

I typically call it something like, "startup.bat" and the contents would look something like this:

net use Z: /delete

net use Z: \\server\share /u:Administrator "passwordhere"

exit

(I've found that using the delete command first typically helps the phone to not ring as much.

Hope this helps,

Ira @ KVR

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nfoods

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Yes we're on a domain,
I was hoping there was a way to force a drive mapping without having to log the user off/back on
but I've looked everywhere and don't think there is a way of doing it, other than write a quick batch file, drop it on the user's desktop and telling them to run it

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