>As usual, you go into great detail on your explanations, far more than I. I was making an assumption that the setup of the current system involved a config file of some type that had a record with "Datapath = L:\MyData". In this case, modifying to UNC to support non-standard drive mappings is cake, since you modify the record for UNC. Then your only concern is if you have multiple servers, and not all users are connected to the necessary ones.
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>I'm amazed at the power of the WSH. I haven't used it yet, but will soon. I have to run some old DOS code on a new NT network till I get the s/w rewritten. The DOS code is run thru Direct Access Menu that sets up mappings on the fly. I think the simplest thing to do is set up WSH scripts that will emulate the Direct Access batch files.
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Very likely; I don't know Direct Access, so I can't really say. Since you can write your script in VBScript or JScript (or both) and access virtually any COM Object you like in the script, I can't think of anything that I can do with a batch file I can't do at least as well with Windows Scripting, especially since, if you get stuck, you can always run the old batch file using WScript.Shell, which has a Run method...