Adding groups to a shared folder on a server help

[ghost]

Hello all again, I am on a mission at work.

I have a new server up and running with windows server 2003 OS, it is now part of the domain too. What I am wanting to do is share a folder to a group of people on the active directory. I have gone into the permissions to do this but it will not let me add a group from AD, I can add users ok but not groups. Does anyone know why I can't do this?

Cheers in advance

 

[tlarkin]

I haven't fussed with AD for a while, but if I recall you need to log into your AD domain controller from there create group policy and then map the shared drive with the full absolute network path to said share.

Another alternative is what is called a log in hook. Which is a script that runs when a particular user logs in. For windows probably a VBS script or a batch file would work.

Assuming all your users sit in one LDAP, that is the server that will hold all the group policies.

here I did a quick search for an example of how to set a log in script

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/Logon_HomeDir.htm

 

[ghost]

Ace, cheers again mate.