This is a little late but "why" is it really that bad the they have more than one mapped drive. Unless your users are stupid they will soon learn that they can map their own drive using what ever they want. If you do not want them to be able to see all shares you need to add a $ to the end of your share name. The $ will hide the shares form the browse list but you can still use the UNC name to map them to it. Since your network sounds small I would share each user directory as such Joeuser$ and then map the drive to \\servername\joeuser$ then department dir as share Accounting$ and map a drive to \\servername\accounting$ . This is just one way. Remember the harder it is to set up the harder to maintain? Sometimes. If this is your first time I would go by the book that way you can always pick up a book to see what you have. Good luck
Justin -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Claude [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:21 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Organizing users data on the file server I was thinking the same thing also since I am having difficulties to make DFS do what I want. Basically on my server (One file server), in the root directory, I have two folders Users and Departments. Under the Users folder, I have my users folders (jdoe, rkevin, jchappo, kgordon etc..). Under the Department folder, I have the departments folders (IT, HR, Sales etc...). What I would like to accomplish is to use one map drive on each client machine to connect to their private folder as well as their department folder. Example: jdoe will have his X: drive mapped to both (jdoe folder, and IT folder). rkevin will also have his X: drive mapped to (rkevin folder, and Sales folder). jchappo will have his X: drive mapped to (jchappo folder, and IT folder) etc... So each user will click on the drive X: and see two folders: their private folder and their department folder. By doing this, users only see their private folder and their department folder. They do not see any other folder that does not belong them. Also they only use one mapped drive that has two sub-folders: their private folder and their department folder. Will you please share with me how you have it configure in your own environment. This is my first file server that I am configuring, may be I do not have to do it this way. Thank you your suggestions. ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
