Question about mapping drives...HELP!!!

[Scrapster]

We have a bunch of windows 98 workstations in our lab and I want to set them up so whenever a user logs in they will have a mapped drive to a specific shared folder (the folder is the same name as their username). Right now I can only map them to the folder which contains EVERYONES folder (i.e., the "home" folder). But I want to map it one step further and get the user in their specific folder. So I guess I need some type of floating variable that will insert the username into the shared folder path.

Does anyone know how to do this in windows 98?

 

[Iron Woode]

You should be able to specify which folder is shared with a specific computer easily. Time consumming but all you need to do is go on each workstation and search the networked hdd and then isolate the correct folder for that machine. It is not that difficult. The only problem i can see is that if someone wanted to look in all the other folders that are not theirs they would be able to easily. Why? Because the networked drive must share all the folders that are required and they will all be available on each workstation. The solution? Use password entry for each workstation's individual folder. That way they can only get into their own folder.

 

[Scrapster]

Iron Woode,


I've done all that. Thing is, our users can use any computer they want. I know I can map to a users folder directly, make it persistent. But that isn't any good if another user logs on the same computer and isn't mapped up to his own folder.

Like I said, I need a floating variable that will automatically insert the username into the shared folder path for ANY user that logs in. Each user needs to be mapped to their own folder. This is what I can't figure out.