> I'm sure you can, or at least manage it down a lot -- sure there must be a
> better way!  Don't ever doubt the incompetence of average Windows box
> sysadmins, specially against a wise Haskeller... :)

Heh. Well *apparently* I suck at Haskell. According to some guy who has 
been described as "a known troll on the Scheme forums", and who 
describes himself as "evil".

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Invisible escreveu:
>> I'm sure you can, or at least manage it down a lot -- sure there must 
>> be a
>> better way!  Don't ever doubt the incompetence of average Windows box
>> sysadmins, specially against a wise Haskeller... :)
> 
> Heh. Well *apparently* I suck at Haskell. According to some guy who has 
> been described as "a known troll on the Scheme forums", and who 
> describes himself as "evil".

who's that?

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>> Heh. Well *apparently* I suck at Haskell. According to some guy who 
>> has been described as "a known troll on the Scheme forums", and who 
>> describes himself as "evil".
> 
> who's that?

Just some guy on the Haskell mailing list.

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Invisible escreveu:
>>> Heh. Well *apparently* I suck at Haskell. According to some guy who 
>>> has been described as "a known troll on the Scheme forums", and who 
>>> describes himself as "evil".
>>
>> who's that?
> 
> Just some guy on the Haskell mailing list.

It's been a while since I've roamed the c.l.* newsgroups and some 
mailing lists.  Seems I've been missing much fun! :D

There was an annoying Ruby enthusiast at the CLisp newsgroups.  oh, it 
was fun... :)

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>   NET USE J: \\uk-bigbox\department /persistent:no
>   NET USE R: \\uk-bigbox\results /persistent:no
>   NET USE M: \\uk-bigbox\management /persistent:no

Might I wonder why you don't just user /persistent:yes and not run the 
script at every login?  Last I looked, Windows maps the drives when you log 
in, and unmaps them when you log out...  Is this some domain funkiness?

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>   NET USE J: \\uk-bigbox\department /persistent:no
>>   NET USE R: \\uk-bigbox\results /persistent:no
>>   NET USE M: \\uk-bigbox\management /persistent:no
> 
> Might I wonder why you don't just user /persistent:yes and not run the 
> script at every login?  Last I looked, Windows maps the drives when you 
> log in, and unmaps them when you log out...  Is this some domain funkiness?

The reason: If I ever need to *change* the drive mapping, I can just 
adjust the login script. However, if instead you make the drive mappings 
permanent, this doesn't work.

(Indeed, Windows NT *defaults* to temporary mappings, so the switch was 
unecessary. However, Windows XP defaults to persistent, hence the need 
for me to add that switch.)

The [vastly more complex] VB script they're using at HQ tests for and 
deletes any existing mappings, which also achieves the same job.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> The reason: If I ever need to *change* the drive mapping, I can just 
> adjust the login script. 

That makes sense, yes.

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   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> The reason: If I ever need to *change* the drive mapping, I can just 
>> adjust the login script. 
> 
> That makes sense, yes.

See? I do things for *reasons*. ;-)

(In a similar way, all our PCs use DHCP. Even though there's actually 
nowhere near enough PCs that we couldn't just assign static addresses to 
them...)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> The reason: If I ever need to *change* the drive mapping, I can just 
>>> adjust the login script. 
>>
>> That makes sense, yes.
> 
> See? I do things for *reasons*. ;-)

I didn't say you did. That's why I asked.

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   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Invisible wrote:
> 
> Fact #1: It's VB. (!!) I didn't even know you could *do* that!
> 
> Fact #2: It's 318 lines long. (!!!!!!)
> 

We use something like that at work (AFAIK it's not VB - it's something
called Kix, I haven't gotten into it too much, just modified the script
if needed, the syntax is easy). OTOH, we don't just map network drives -
we also map printers and create software shortcuts according to
permissions (which are granted via AD groups). It really makes sense
when you have enough different users, permissions and mappings.

-Aero

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