Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Managing Published Shared Folders

Another object that you can publish to Active Directory is a shared folder object. To publish a shared folder on Active Directory, locate the Active Directory container where you want to publish the shared folder. Right-click the container and select New>Shared Folder. Then type in a name for the Active Directory object as well as the UNC for the shared folder. After you create the shared folder object in Active Directory, users can browse for the shared folder or search Active Directory for the object. After the users locate the object in Active Directory, they can right-click on the object and map a drive to the shared folder.

The primary advantage of publishing a shared folder to Active Directory is so that ...