You didn't say what you were trying to map it for, but you could set it up in User Manager for Domains as the home directory and have it map that way. If you plan on having more than 1 mapping now or down the road, I might suggest you look at s product called Scriptlogic. It does more than just map drives.

-----Original Message----- From: sdolive@ngco.com [mailto:sdolive@ngco.com] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 09:22 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: automatic drive mapping from a cifs client to the filer...

I created a share on an F740 (Ontap 6.0.1R3) and am trying to map a drive from a CIFS client (Windows 2000) automatically at logon point. I have no problems mapping the drive once I am logged on but would like it so that when a user logs onto the 2000 machine the drive gets mapped automatically. I have followed the microsoft suggestion which is copying the autoexnt, instexnt and servmess.dll files to the winnt/system32 root. I have also created a batch file whcih contains the following line 'net use j: \filer\x03. I have tried the starting the service with the local account and also the administrators account but still nothing. I have also added another command to the batch file (md test) and when the service is started it creates the directory test but does not map the drive. Is their anyone out there who has experienced the same problem?

Thanks, Shaun Technical Services 416-235-2122 sdolive@ngco.com