RRAS and logon scripts

I'm sure there's a way to do this, I just don't know how - hopefully someone
out there does.

I'm running a Server 2003 R2 domain, active directory, etc. When domain
users authenticate to the network a logon script runs that maps their network
drives based on security group membership. I have configured RRAS on one of
the member servers; users connect to the network via a PPTP VPN connection
and can then browse the network, etc. It's been running for a couple of
years now and all is good. Almost...

Some of my users find UNC paths, links in My Network Places, etc to be
confusing so what I 'd like to do is have their logon script run when they
make their VPN connection so that they will get their mapped drives. But I
don't know how to make this happen.

Any ideas?

Comments and suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,

Don

It isn't going to run as a logon script.
You'll have to put a copy of the batch file on their PC. They will have to
manually run it after they connect.

Mapped drives are misserable,...are horrible in performance,..."time out"
all the time,...eat up resources

Forget the whole thing and create "Shortcuts" based on the UNC path and copy
them to the users machine. Put them in the All Users profile at the Desktop
Folder. If you are afraid that "naming" will fail then use IP#s in the
Shortcuts instead of names.


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"Don Devenney" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm sure there's a way to do this, I just don't know how - hopefully
> someone
> out there does.
>
> I'm running a Server 2003 R2 domain, active directory, etc. When domain
> users authenticate to the network a logon script runs that maps their
> network
> drives based on security group membership. I have configured RRAS on one
> of
> the member servers; users connect to the network via a PPTP VPN connection
> and can then browse the network, etc. It's been running for a couple of
> years now and all is good. Almost...
>
> Some of my users find UNC paths, links in My Network Places, etc to be
> confusing so what I 'd like to do is have their logon script run when they
> make their VPN connection so that they will get their mapped drives. But
> I
> don't know how to make this happen.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Comments and suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don