Minimizing Hassle

[Mark Rockman]

I'm administering a small network with 11 users and 4
stations. Three computers run Windows XP Pro. One runs
Windows 2000 Pro. I want to eliminate logons primarily
for convenience and to reduce the number of user profiles
to one. This is desirable so that a drive to share (and
shared printer) mapping does not have to be manually
established and maintained for each and every user
individually. Alternatively, can you think of a way to
automate the establishment and maintenance of drive letter
to share mappings (including printer shares which don't
have drive letters) for each user without having to
document procedures for doing the mapping that include
publishing userid/password combinations that are demanded
by the OS when the mappings are established? I am trained
on Windows 2000. The Windows XP user interface is
unfamilar territory, I admit.

[Ray Taylor]

Set all computers to automatically log in as administrator without a logon
prompt. Make sure the administrator username and passwords are all the same
on each computer.

Set up each computer how you wish ie. mapped printers and drives.

This would mean that users would not have to login, printers and everything
else should be mapped automatically upon starting the computer and drives
would too.


If you had the money, i would suggest using windows 2000 server on one of
the workstations or better still having a seperate server. This would mean
you could simply use a logon script to apply changes to 1 or more users and
you have roaming profiles also.

Ray Taylor




"Mark Rockman" > wrote in message
...
> I'm administering a small network with 11 users and 4
> stations. Three computers run Windows XP Pro. One runs
> Windows 2000 Pro. I want to eliminate logons primarily
> for convenience and to reduce the number of user profiles
> to one. This is desirable so that a drive to share (and
> shared printer) mapping does not have to be manually
> established and maintained for each and every user
> individually. Alternatively, can you think of a way to
> automate the establishment and maintenance of drive letter
> to share mappings (including printer shares which don't
> have drive letters) for each user without having to
> document procedures for doing the mapping that include
> publishing userid/password combinations that are demanded
> by the OS when the mappings are established? I am trained
> on Windows 2000. The Windows XP user interface is
> unfamilar territory, I admit.