I use the old DOS style net use command to map drive from one computer to another.

net use {drive letter}: \\{IP Address of machine}\{folder}

to map a LOT of drives. 

I would LOVE to be able to automate the user name/password part also....

anybody know how or have any ideas?

The computer gets moved around and connects from various locations, so it is not always able to log in to the network.  I have a VPN setup so I can get to the drives remotely, but by that time the user name password verification is over and I'm prompted for a user name password.

I recently shared this setup with a ....less competent user... (diplomacy at work) and had to spend 2 hours trying to help them get access to these drives.  They have router setup wrong, so we had to bypass it.  Then they had the standby button pressed on their modem (so it was not connecting to internet and rejecting all traffic).  I had to call their ISP to find this out.    Then we got the VPN to connect but mapping WOULD not work.

Gave up on this, tried to set them back up as they were.  1 1/2 hours latter they found out caps lock was on and I was contemplating homicide (yes I asked 4-5 times before this about the caps lock key).  So mapping issue was most likely the caps lock key.  I have no choice but to help them with this so advising them to "take a leap" is NOT an option for me.


I expect MANY more issues like this from them in the future so I was hoping someone would know how I could automate this.  They use same user name and password to logon to network as they do for their computer, BUT the mapped drives are part of a domain, not a work group.  And that is causing some of the trouble.

I do NOT expect an answer on this one.  I am HOPING for an answer or idea I can go with.

No matter how pleasing the discussion would be, advice on the homicide would NOT be helpful.

Thanks for your time

AWESOME  
That looks like EXACTLY what I was looking for.

one note though, I use server's IP address rather than server name due to odd DNS issues that crop up over VPN.  If someone else is going to do this and they run into issues making it work try IP address rather than name.

i.e. \\192.168.1.1\users\whoever rather than \\mostawesomeserver\users\whoever for the path part of the command.


THANKS again

Thanks GreyArray.  Mine actually works without the quotes (I think because this user has no special characters).

When I run into one that doesn't work without quotes I'll (hopefully) remember to use the quotes.