Map network drive script

[CoXeY]

Hello,

I plan to map network drives in our organisation using logon (and logoff) scripts.

This is fine but I am yet to come up with a solution for applying the associated credentials. Some of the shares are located outside of our active directory and require the user to "connect using a different username". To maintain current functionality I need a way to specify these alternate credentials without compromising security (i.e. including the username and password in the script).

How do you guys overcome this? Any ideas how I can too?

 

[CoXeY]

Thanks for the feedback so far.

I am aware that I can lock down access to the script using NTFS permissions but surely to include username and password credentials in a script is not best practice!!

Looking into this a little further i have found the "manage passwords" feature in XP which might give me a glimmer of hope!

I can write the script without including the account credentials and then set these using the "manage passwords" feature.

My only question now is can I use group policy to set the values in the "manage passwords" feature?

Cheers
Dan.

 

[CoXeY]

Thanks bond but its actually resources located in a DMZ workgroup environment so a trust is not applicable in this case.

I had a chat with one of our developers yesterday and he mentioned that it may be possible to encode/encrypt the credentials in the script so i'm waiting to here back on that before i got any further.

Dan.