hi all I have shared out a folder on my nt4 server . I want to give users a home folder which will be maped when they log on . I have shared out a folder called users and went into user profiles and set Z: to map to \\server\users\testuser . This works ok but it mapes to the folder users . I need it to map to testuser folder and make this its root folder. I have used the %username% comand but this give the same result Any help ?? Regards Richard Dunne

NT always does this - a workaround is to share each user's home directory in it's own right and then map to that. Are your clients Win9x? if your clients are NT workstation it should work correctly anyway.

I was looking for an answer to this one - an alternative is to use the SUBST command in a login script to map a drive letter to the UNC, eg. SUBST Z: \\server\users\testuser. This works fine, but beware that SUBSTs persist for the duration of the OS's execution, and so aren't deleted when a user logs out. I get around this by deleting and recreating each time a user logs in, and setting permissions on the home folder to restrict access to other users. Another annoyance is that MS have 'broken' this method in Win2k in that you can't SUBST UNCs, but CAN now NET USE directly to a subfolder! Guess who's login scripts just got a lot more complicated ?? :-)