I would never take an "argument" on this list personally. It's just an intellectual exercise for the benefit of all of us. I appreciate your comments, and you helped clarify my understanding. A careful reading of both of our last messages would show we are in agreement. I specifically stated that it doesn't persist under TS or win2k (TS not involved). The only place I have experience with persistance of SUBST was under NT4 (TS not involved). Both you and Mark Cook were addressing TS and Winframe, which I (and Mark Guzo the starter of the string) was not. It is clear that both NET USE and SUBST changed between NT4 and Win2k, again, not addressing TS or Winframe etc. because they were not part of the original question. In NT4 you could not NET USE to a share subfolder, in WIN2k you can. In NT4 you could SUBST to a UNC, Mark Guzo and I can't do that in Win2k, (it seemingly maps, but is then inaccessible) and that was the point of the original question. Thanks David Spanne Subject: [windows2000] Re: SUBST error From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:10:55 +0100 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I don't wish to start an argument over this but in the interests of clarity (and for the benefit of anyone using the list archive as a knowledgebase) I'd just like to point out that I'm currently using subst on my NT4TSE farm login scripts and it is definitely user-specific. We map a drive letter (H:) to \\server\rootshare and use subst to map another drive letter (W:) to H:\%username% -----Original Message----- From: David L.Spanne [mailto:werenomads@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 25 May 2005 22:50 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: SUBST error Platform means everything, and this is "windows2000". For Win2k you are right, for NT4 I'm right. The subst command is dfferent between OSs. Yes, under Win2k and TS, it is no longer machine specific. Under NT4, it persisted for all users. Under NT4, you could use subst on a UNC, but can't under Win2k. "NT4 doesn't let you map a drive letter to a share's subdirectory (Win2k does), but here's a workaround: Use the SUBST command, which lets you use Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) paths (Win2k doesn't allow this) and environment variables in the command line. Add SUBST h: \\logonserver\users\%username% to your log-on script. This tells NT to map the H: drive to the directory under the user's share that matches the name of the user logging on." I used to use such a logon.cmd in NT4, but it has to have a subst h: /d before it because it did persist between users. David Spanne Gallai'r e-bost yma gynnwys gwybodaeth gyfrinachol a/neu ddeunydd hawlfraint. 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