Hi,

Wonder how to use a script to create a shortcut on user's desktop which
connect them a network share folder, eg: \\server\shared

I dont want to use net use commmand because it would require a drive letter.
Although I can instruct user to go to my network places and use the wizzard
to add a network place, however, users generall do not know how to do so,
besides many user's network places are hidden by the GPO.

Thanks
Frank

Re: create a shortcut to network drive by Torgeir

Torgeir
Thu May 26 14:38:16 CDT 2005

MSNEWS wrote:

> Wonder how to use a script to create a shortcut on user's desktop which
> connect them a network share folder, eg: \\server\shared
>
> I dont want to use net use commmand because it would require a drive letter.
> Although I can instruct user to go to my network places and use the wizzard
> to add a network place, however, users generall do not know how to do so,
> besides many user's network places are hidden by the GPO.
Hi,


Something like this maybe:

'--------------------8<----------------------

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

' Create shortcut in the All Users Desktop folder
sAllUsersDesktopPath = oShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")

Set oShortCut = oShell.CreateShortcut( _
sAllUsersDesktopPath & "\Some Network Drive.lnk")

oShortCut.TargetPath = "\\server\shared"
oShortCut.Save

MsgBox "Shortcut is now created.", _
vbInformation + vbSystemModal, "Create shortcuts"

'--------------------8<----------------------


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