GPO Drive Map based on COMPUTER name

[mdm7923]

Hello,
I am wondering if it is possible to do a GPO Drive map based on the computer name, rather than the user name. I would like to do this to set up a backup share for each computer where I can place the backup files.

ex. COMPUTER1 would be mapped to \\fileserver\backups\COMPUTER1

[CimmerianX]

I don't see why not. COMPUTERNAME is a system variable. I'm not 100% about mapping drives with the variable, but you can try it anyway.

It would be something like \\fileserver\backups\%COMPUTERNAME%

[mdm7923]

So simply, it would just be a GPO on Domain Computers that says to map drive X to \\servername\sharename\%COMPUTERNAME%?

[CimmerianX]

I have a hunch that you may have to make that a batch file and use a GPO to run the file at logon. I've done similiar stuff with user home directories in VBS so it can't be much different.

[mdm7923]

Well, it was easy enough. No batch file needed. was just able to map the drive to \\SERVER\Backups\%COMPUTERNAME% within the GPO Manager in 2k8 R2.

Gotta love environment variables :)