We're running a network with about 350 users and 16 servers. All IBM servers, all Dell workstations. The servers are running Windows NT Server version 4.0 Service Pack 6a; the workstations are running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 5 or 6a. Some workstations are also running windows 2000 Professional. We have two networks, a Novell one and an NT one. We are in the process of phasing out the Novell server because it's sad.. it's too old, and it's full. So we are moving everything slowly from that to the new NT server "file01". A lot of things are done through drive mappings so when we moved a big folder from the novell server to the NT server all we had to do was take a couple lines out of the Novell script that were the mappings, and make an NT script for people to execute that did the same thing except it mapped to file01 instead of Novell. This is a copy of our script for NT:

net use h: \\file01\%username%
net use p: \\file01\public

H: is each individual users directory on the server and P: is pretty self explanatory. Because I am an admin i have a different script that maps a couple additional drives that only the admin's use, this is that script:

net use h: \\file01\%username%
net use f: \\file01\data
net use q: \\file01\users
net use p: \\file01\public

The problem is that this new NT script takes a VERY long time to execute. On my personal PC that executes the second script it takes a full minute (sixty seconds, i timed it) to execute. Is there any possible way at all that we can cut down on the execution time of these scripts?

thanx.. -sr