Mapping a drive to an OU

[PreviousPoster]

Does anyone know how to map a Network drive to an OU using GP? It's easily done to a user under the "profile" tab but, I can't seem to figure out how to do it for the whole OU?

[PreviousPoster]

Could you not use a logon script?

[PreviousPoster]

I would suppose a logon script would work well, I don't have any experience in that dept and my assistant is away for 2 weeks who does know scripts... Thx

[DennisT]

net use [drive]: \\server\sharename /Yes /Persistent:yes

[PreviousPoster]

DennisT, good command, still trying to get it to work with the GP though? I tried it on the workstation and voila, there is my mapped drive. When I put it in a GP logon script, no drive? Thx

[DennisT]

You'll probably have to embed it in a batch script for it to work in a logon script. Create a file, IE logon.bat, and enter that command in it. Then enter the batch script into your GPO.

[PreviousPoster]

Got it! Thx. Next, it seems to work in XP but not Vista Buisness, but that may be another issue for another time. Thx again!

[PreviousPoster]

scratch the last post, it works across the boards. Thx

[AdamV]

<edit> I just saw your other post about this, so added this info:
If you do not already have the folders created and do not want to create them all with a script, then the best place to do this is in the AD properties which will create the folder when the user logs on if it does not already exist. NB: It will not create a share so you have to create a share and let it make folders inside that. </edit>

If you are just trying to set a single drive for each user using the "home drive" properties, then you could simply change this in AD for a whole OU using DSMod, based on output from a DSQuery command.

See this tutorial for details about DSMod and DSQuery, including a specific example of how to do this for homedrive path:

dsquery user “OU=Sales,OU=New York,dc=internal,dc=AcmeCorp,dc=com” | dsmod user -hmdir \\internal\DfsRoot\homes\$username$ -hmdrv u: