How to map a full drive letter?

[NEOBAHAMUT]

Hi all,

I have been a frequent visitor to the site but for some reason have only just registered. I have a problem and this is on my own home domain.

I have a Windows Server 2003 domain controller which inside houses my "E$" or my "Media Drive". I store all my music, videos and pictures.

I have 2 machines in my house both connected to the domain and both are running Windows 7.

Anyway now that you know my domain here is my problem. I am wanting to make it so that when a user in my domain logs on it maps the full root of the media drive to their machine. For example on my Media Drive I have folders such as Music, Videos, Pictures, Other, Images, Backups and a few others. I am wanting to make it so that when I map a drive it maps the whole lot but in on mapped drive. For some reason Im not able to do this with the script i've written. However if i go through each folder and share each one then use the script ive written it then maps each folder as a mapped drive. So once I login it gives a drive letter to each folder. I'm not wanting this. I want it so that I get the whole lot just on one mapped drive.

I have been using this as a .bat file and as a logon script.

net use z: \\servername\music
net use y: \\servername\pictures
net use x: \\servername\videos

this works perfectly and maps each folder as a drive. When I change the script to something like this though...

net use z: \\servername\d$

It doesnt seem to map anything.

I hope I have given enough information here.

[jeff_longley]

admin priviledges needed to maps to root share.
Whats the issue with dropping your media into a subfolder and mapping to that? So for example, a folder called media with the music\pictures\videos subfolders?

[trekker]

As a second suggestion, you could always share your E:\ drive out as 'E' to your users and run "net use z: \\servername\e". Just remember to set the proper file permissions on the entire E:\ drive.

However.... Do you really want every user that gets access to your media drive to see EVERYTHING on E:\? Echoing what Jeff said, I would set up a top-level folder on your E:\ that is something like E:\Media\ and drop everything into that. Share it out as "media" and run your net use on it. For a your small home domain, sharing out E:\ is a reasonable setup. If this was a business network, I would never recommend sharing out a whole drive like that and would err toward a sub-folder being shared out.