[hobbit] bbwin and remote drives

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Thursday 24 January 2008, Rob MacGregor wrote:
>
> Remember that drives are mapped on a per-user basis.  So, to see
> mapped drives you'll need to have them mapped as the user that's
> running bbwin.

The exception to that, at least under win2003, is to setup a drive mapping via 
the "Scheduled Tasks". Under Scheduled Tasks, set the job to run as System 
without a password and to run at startup. This will create a Disconnected 
Drive mapping, that any logged on user can access. When users access this 
drive, their credentials are used, not the local system account.

I had to write a simple vbscript to perform the drive mapping.. needed a 60 
second sleep command before drive mapping. Seems that sometimes, system 
startup is abit too soon to make drive mappings, hence the sleep.

There are some known issue with mapping to a samba share, haven't fully 
figured that out yet.

Just figured this tidbit of information may be of use to others. It took me 
some time to figure it out. One of my legacy apps does use UNC, and hence why 
this was needed.