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[wesleyw]

Does anyone know of a way to map a drive and setting up a different label for instance:

 

\\Server1\sharedarea

 

map to j drive

 

name displayed in my computer/explorer Staff Shared Area?

 

Is this possible or am I hoping for too much here?

 

Wes

[plexer]

Any good?

 

http://myitforum.com/articles/11/view.asp?id=6492

 

Ben

[mrforgetful]

Why not just change what the folder is shared as, it's that which is displayed no?

[ajbritton]

It is possible to do it from VB Script as follows...

 

dim oNet, oShell

set oNet = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

oNet.MapNetworkDrive "J:", "\\server\share"
oShell.NameSpace("J:").Self.Name = "Shared Work Area"

set oShell = nothing
set oNet = nothing

 

EDIT: This appears not to work on Win2K Pro.

[wesleyw]

We only use Win XP pro so hopefully that will work I'll let you know!

 

Thanks Guys!

 

Wes

[OverWorked]

 

oShell.NameSpace("J:").Self.Name = "Shared Work Area"

 

 

I was searching for something else when I came across this. I've given my mapped drives user-friendly names now. Great! Another little niggle sorted.

[ChrisH]

 

oShell.NameSpace("J:").Self.Name = "Shared Work Area"

 

 

I was searching for something else when I came across this. I've given my mapped drives user-friendly names now. Great! Another little niggle sorted.

 

I tried that last year and ran into permission problems when running in the context of a logon script. I shall have to have another go though........

[ajbritton]

I use it in a logon script and it works fine. My logon scripts are assigned via GP (not user account property).