One can create a network place in Windows 2000 by going to "My Network
Places" and double-clicking on "Add Network Place" and then following
the prompts. However, I need a _script_ that can be run from the
command line to do the same thing. There is a further catch: the
network place I want to create requires an account and password.

To summarize: the script, when run, should prompt the user for a
username and password and then create the network place using that
information.


 * Windows 2000
 * should run in stock Windows
 * preferably written in VB6 or Perl or WSH (.NET as a last resort)
 * need source code

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Clarification of Question by jjames1-ga on 12 Aug 2004 19:24 PDT

I would not mind a mapped drive, but as far as I know the "net use"
will not work in this case. For example,

net use W: https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/joeuser/

will not work.

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Clarification of Question by jjames1-ga on 14 Aug 2004 20:40 PDT

I should add that the intent is to create a web folder pointing to a
webdav server thus allowing drag-and-drop to the web folder.

"net use" isn't what you want, I guess. You don't want to map drive letters?

Check this out... http://www.webdav.org/perldav/

I tried http://www.webdav.org/perldav/ but, unfortunately, I could not
get it to work, at least on my Windows machine and with the web dav
server that I need to connect to.

May be this post is what you need:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=etAAemp%23AHA.1860%40tkmsftngp05&rnum=5

The link posted by uncle_ziba-ga is close, but what it seems to do is
create a URL shortcut not a web folder that allows drag-and-drop
(which is what I need). When I create the web folder using the GUI
"wizard" the object created has an icon that looks like a little
folder with a blue world on it and little network connection lines
underneath. The script at
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=etAAemp%23AHA.1860%40tkmsftngp05&rnum=5
makes a shortcut to a URL.