Net use command in Windows?

Question

Im making a script that mounts several shared folders to a Windows server. What do I do if I run out of letters to assign the shares to?

Example:
net use f: \\sharedfoldername
and so

No zz doesnt work. This is in Windows 2000 by the way.

Answer 1

You are limited to A through Z for drive letter assignments. I would recommend limiting the amount of shares you mount. If possible, then redesigning the structure of shares on the Windows server(s) would be best.

For instance, I work at a large corporation (3000+ servers, 100,000+ users worldwide), but we only map 3 shares, globally. J: = a common dfs root for all users in our North America domain. L: = a common dfs root for all users in our local company. H:=the users' home directory.

Under each dfs root we can map multiple dfs links which point to standard \\server\shares. So, the 3000+ users at the local company can still access the 500 shares on our file and print cluster with just the one L: drive mapping.

Answer 2

net use \\pathname /USER:domain or localhost\username password

reply if the above doesnt works..i use this in batch files to mount disks and map machines..


Cheers,
Batch..

Answer 3

i believe you can use zz and other doubles as a drive.