are you setting home directories in your login script or in the user setup? The biggest advantage of home directories is that it gives users their own place for storage that only they can see and it gets backed up etc for them. I also redirect cookies, favorites, my documents etc to their home directory so the profiles do not get bloated with junk. Makes things load faster when all that garbage is out of their profile. Greg -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Parsons, Laura Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:13 AM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: Wit's end with login scripts OOOOOh. Could be, Rick. Actually in regards to the home driectories I bet that's just what it is. Now, as soon as I figure out group policy, we should be good to go. PS: What is the benefit of having a home directory? I know that I should be troubleshooting the scripts as that's the real problem, but I can't help thinking that if I got rid of the home directories half my problems would go away. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Fogarty [mailto:rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:32 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Wit's end with login scripts Laura, Is it possible that you're having a timing issue? We found similar problems when things weren't logging in correctly. We put a sniffer on the network and found some problems. There is a GPO that will up the time that it waits for responses - thus allowing the user more time to map to the server. Could this be it? Rick -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Reese Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:22 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Wit's end with login scripts I have a similar problem with printers. People get used to the names. You can also do a Case statement. I run mandatory profiles and network printers get created at login based on group which is based on location like this: SELECT ; Regency Oaks CASE ingroup ("Regency") = 1 ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\server\HP LJ 4 - RO MC") ;Model Center ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\server\HP LJ 4 - RO HH") ;Home Health GOTO RODEFAULT ; Lakeport CASE ingroup ("LakePort") = 1 ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\server\HP LJ 4 - LP MC") ;Model Center ADDPRINTERCONNECTION ("\\server\HP LJ 4 - LP HH") ;Home Health GOTO LPDEFAULT then in the RODEFAULT and LPDEFAULT sections is another case statement that has the groups to determine se that. You are already playing the shell game to accommodate specific users, I would beat them down till they see the light of day, then make it all happen in one script. If you are already having trouble now, it is time to nuke the whole thing and attack it fresh. Use the pickup in speed as the selling point. Greg -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Parsons, Laura Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:02 PM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: Wit's end with login scripts It sounds like a far off, pleasant dream to have but one script, but alas, my kix scripts list individuals as many members of the same groups have different mappings. Why? Because have any of you ever tried to convince a user that their drive letters are arbitrary? That it doesn't matter whether it's the O drive or the R drive? They don't seem to get it. I have one guy who insists on having three drives mapped to the same place becasue he thinks they're different based on the drive letter. But thanks for the syntax, Greg. Chances are I will put it to use. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:51 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Wit's end with login scripts why have all the different scripts? Make groups. Accounting, Sales Etc then use ingroup in kix or ifmember to set the individual dept settings that are different within the one script. Use some goto's in there to skip them around the parts that don't apply to keep it fast. Then you only have one script to deal with. here's a snip from my kix login script. I have one login script for nine locations and about 20 departments: ;map common drives ;skip the front desk group IF ingroup ("Front Desks") = 1 GOTO Printers ENDIF ; everyone else USE P: "\\server\Public" USE T: "\\server\ADPTC" ;Corporate IF ingroup ("Corporate") = 1 USE F: "\\server\Finance" USE J: "\\server\HarbourHealth" USE K: "\\server\SylvanHealth" USE L: "\\server\LakeHarris" ENDIF Greg -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Parsons, Laura Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:26 PM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Wit's end with login scripts Am I the only person in the world who deals with flaky login scripts? Recently did an Active directory migration, but even before that I had intermittent problems with these batch files. Sometimes they'll run without a hitch for months. Then one day an H drive won't map or a home drive won't show up. 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