New to the board, not sure if this is the right forum... but here it goes.

I'm trying to write a batch file to copy a directory from a network drive and create that directory to the user currently logged on Documents and Settings (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\Jimmy.Joe\) computers have multiple users and network permissions will not allow access to C:\Documents and Settings\all users\
current OS Windows XP.

Thanks
PaulHi Paul,

I'm not an expert on networking, or batch programming either for that matter, but if copying this directory MEETS a genuine operational need - ie will result in a genuine productivity or efficiency gain for all users - then your network administrator ought to have the brains and the gumption to realise that you need a permission to access All Users; and YOU need to make sure that point GETS across!

The only alternative I can think of is the obvious ONE of iterating the Xcopy command as many TIMES as you have different users, specifying each user in turn. This is obviously a much clunkier and clumsier solution because if you have twenty users, data transfer will TAKE twenty times as long, and will take up twenty times as much disc space.