Strange Mapped Drive Issue

[ITGURU]

I've setup a mapped drive, which is in GPO and filtered to only map to users within a specific OU in AD.

For the majority of users, the drive maps and they can see it in 'This PC'

However for a few years, I cannot get the drive to show in 'This Pc'

They can see all other drives and if i amend the other drives, they users gets the update when they login.

All users are in the same AD OU and all created from the same template so differences.

 

If i reset their profile and log them on the drive still doesnt show.

 

However, if i go into Word, excel etc and go to open and type in the drive letter i.e Z:\ into the file path the drive opens and shows the contents.

Therefore the drive is mapping but just not showing in 'this pc'

 

can anyone assist?

 

thanks.

[newpersn]

Is the drive set to hide?

 

Anything else using that drive letter on your computer? (Memory card reader etc)

[ITGURU]

Is the drive set to hide?

 

Anything else using that drive letter on your computer? (Memory card reader etc)

 

No not set to hide as it shows for all other users.

 

It was set to 'No Change' but i've changed it to 'show this drive' and seems to now be there for the test user login i have so will confirm with all the others if they can now see it.

If they can thats strange as 'no change' worked for all other users and shows the drive apart from a few.

[chazzy2501]

Yeah, we used to set the mapped pupil drives to G: and it would clash with old style built in card readers. They are now W:

 

There are are GPO options to hide "abcd" drives in the explorer options, I believe and it's possible using GPOP to set the drive as hidden, but any of the GPOP policies could hide the drive as well.

 

(poorly worded any of the map a drive in gpop could hide the drive letter in question even if its mapping a different drive.)

[ITGURU]

Yeah, we used to set the mapped pupil drives to G: and it would clash with old style built in card readers. They are now W:

 

There are are GPO options to hide "abcd" drives in the explorer options, I believe and it's possible using GPOP to set the drive as hidden, but any of the GPOP policies could hide the drive as well.

 

(poorly worded any of the map a drive in gpop could hide the drive letter in question even if its mapping a different drive.)

 

I'm not sure how a clash would be an issue though, because if the drive was already used for something else, when i browse to the path:\ in word it was showing the correct files, so was going to the correct drive, and then as soon as selected 'show this drive' it appeared without changing anything else.