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Modifying Network Share Display Name from Logon Script

Hi,

I have a network share on a NAS drive that I want to store all my Technicians time sheets in. I have created the network share and a folder under that share for each username for every tech.

I have setup the logon script to:

net use w: \\NAS01\Timesheets\%USERNAME%

and this works well to share the correct folder with each Technician.

My issue is that each share has a Display name of the USERNAME but what I wanted is for the share to be called TimeSheets for every user - even though they are all mapped to their own shared folder on the NAS.

Can anybody help with a way to modify the login script so that this can be achieved?

Many Thanks

masnrock

You would need an additional line for the script after mapping the drive

label W:TimeSheets

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Jacob Durham

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Andrew Halford

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Thanks for the quick response masnrock.

I see that this changes the Drive label, but in Windows Explorer the Display Name of the network share still shows the actual folder name.

e.g. Administrator (\\NAS01\TimeSheets) W:

I really want it to say: TimeSheets W:

I can do it with a Right Click Rename but I was hoping to build it into the Logon Script.

Thanks
Andrew

Andrew Halford

ASKER

Thanks Jacob,

The VB Script worked great.

Fantastic response. Thank you all!

McKnife

@Jacob's "you can't use label on a mapped drive" - true, but you could as well use GPP mapped drives, see the following image: