Annoying popup when opening files over network

[Ste_Harve]

Wonder if you lot can help me. I'm having a problem when I want to open a file from the network.

 

It comes up with a dialog asking whether you want to open or cancel the link. I would like to get rid of this but don't know how. This is annoying as everytime a user wants to open a program it comes up and asks this.

 

Our start menus are redirected for the machines to \\nsnet.net\profiles$ It's only when accessing this does it ask for the open or cancel dialog. I've only noticed this on XP SP2.

 

Thanks

[Dos_Box]

You thinks that's annoying? You've obviously not played with Vista yet!

[indie]

"Are you sure you want to run that?"

 

"Are you sure you want to allow that?"

 

"Are you sure?"

 

"You're not sure now are you, are you sure?"

[_Bob_]

I cant wait for the new version of office then..

 

'It looks like you're writing a letter. Are you sure you want to write a letter?'

 

Good old MS!

 

Ste

You can get around the problem by replacing \\nsnet.net\ with plain old \\nsnet\

 

[beeswax]

I cant wait for the new version of office then..

 

'It looks like you're writing a letter. Are you sure you want to write a letter?'

 

 

the voice of HAL (2001) came in to my head then

[IanB]

I have had that problem- I fixed it by adding the FQDN of the domain to the Trusted Sites zone in IE. I think you can do this by Group Policy under 2003 server, but I used a registry fragment in the user logon script as follows:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\.net]

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\.net\]

"*"=dword:00000002

where the netbios domain name is and the FQDN is ..net

Hope that helps

[W32Jbot]

Run GPEDIT.msc on a template box and have a fiddle in there.