>Mastering Computers, in their Windows Tips & Secrets Newsletter (Sep 1998, Vol 8, No. 2), published a short article entitled 'Easier Mapping to the Home Share.' In this article, they described an annoying fact about NT: 'We can take them (the users) only to the share point for all users' home directories. After that, they need to search for their own folder.'
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>They claimed to have a cool workaround employing the SUBST command in the logon script file along with utilizing the %username% variable to 'Map' a drive directly to the each respective user's home directory.
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>Here's the command for this ...
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>SUBST Z: \\server1\users\%username%
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>NOTE: 'users' is the sharename of the folder that contains all the users' subfolders.
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>However, I get a 'Cannot SUBST a network drive' error when attempting this.
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>Would definitely appreciate any help, or thoughts on whether this can or cannot be done successfully. So far, I have had no success, but it would really be convenient for my users (and thus for me!) if this would work. TIA, CH

Why not just use the "NET" command which is standard issue with all flavors of Windows (9x and NT) such as this:

NET USE Z: \\server1\users\%username%

Haven't tested in this particular situation on a network (Friday night and no network at home... YET!), but should work.

Regards,

Hugo Dahl