Icangoogle Posted July 30, 2015 Posted July 30, 2015 How is everyone giving staff and student home access to shared network drives ?
win Posted July 30, 2015 Posted July 30, 2015 Remote access on a windows server will allow them to login into their desktop, then to shared drives
joseph707 Posted August 1, 2015 Posted August 1, 2015 Hi Icangoogle We usually give them Remote Desktop Services aka Terminal services using Windows Server 2008R2. Various reasons a. Our Staff is given school laptop and they would access normally all the drives as it is b. Our Students also access Student Drive and home folders from domain joined computers c. The beauty about Remote Desktop Services is for our senior grades i.e 10-12. They have BYOD Macs, Laptop, Tablets. We give them RDS and they can access all the programs. The benefit, we don't need to buy additional computers etc d. These Staff/Students can access from home as well even on iPads using Remote Desktop APP from Microsoft f. You can also give access via WebDAV. It is free within IIS and staff/students access them from iPad within school network, thereby cutting down on costs and additional softwares. But you need license for RDS which is way less...from Microsoft for Edu. Hope it helps. Regards Joseph
ITGURU Posted August 8, 2015 Posted August 8, 2015 I give everyone access via Home Access Plus - Free, and as you have to download then re-upload files it stops users working with live files with the potential of messing up files, over-writing etc. Also have RemoteApp implemented for staff Only which allows then to run programs and have full access to their home directory if prefer to do that way, with Office as an app also, so they can edit documents event if they don't have office on their own PC.
SHimmer45 Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Zombiethread alert! @ITGURU how are you pushing the network share at the user? looking as this exact thing now, if i publish an explorer shortcut with a UNC as the opening path the files appear, but in the explorer window no mapped drives are appearing (if the user logs into the RDP server mapped drives appear) are you just publishing \\servername\sharenamepath$ in the explorer shortcut as i am doing.. am missing something in how remoteapp functions
ITGURU Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Zombiethread alert! @ITGURU how are you pushing the network share at the user? looking as this exact thing now, if i publish an explorer shortcut with a UNC as the opening path the files appear, but in the explorer window no mapped drives are appearing (if the user logs into the RDP server mapped drives appear) are you just publishing \\servername\sharenamepath$ in the explorer shortcut as i am doing.. am missing something in how remoteapp functions For remote app , I don't recall doing anything special other than selecting explorer.exe when the user logs in, and opens Explorer, it just shows all their normal drives that are mapped when logging into a PC normally. I didn't have to push any UNC paths or anything.
Steve21 Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Zombiethread alert! @ITGURU how are you pushing the network share at the user? looking as this exact thing now, if i publish an explorer shortcut with a UNC as the opening path the files appear, but in the explorer window no mapped drives are appearing (if the user logs into the RDP server mapped drives appear) are you just publishing \\servername\sharenamepath$ in the explorer shortcut as i am doing.. am missing something in how remoteapp functions As long as you have the normal GPOs setup etc, we just use C:\windows\explorer.exe as the program, and then in parameters "always use the following" as the path etc Then just use your normal T:\ etc Steve
SHimmer45 Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 drive mappings are handled via script rather then gpo preferences if that makes a difference
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