Hiding mapped drives paths (Home folders)

[bewlay51]

Hello (Again)!!

I need to hide the path of my home folders using a GPO. Currently if you open My Computer I have three mapped drives:-

 

Shared Drive (S:)

Public Drive (P:)

User1 (\\server\home) (K:)

 

 

I could do with the user drive appearing something like.....

 

User1 (K:)

 

Thanks......

 

John

[Nixphoe]

Looks like this is what you're looking for. Not sure it can be done with a GPO

 

Logon Script MapNetworkDrive - VBScript rename

[john]

Do you have a 2008 Domain Controller? If so its easy using the Folder Mapping option in that, you can rename mapped drives so we have our mapped drives called:

Home Drive (h)

Public (p)

Drop Box (w)

[_Adam_]

The process is here : Using Group Policy Objects to hide specified drives

 

I have done it myself for different reasons and it works well.

[MYK-IT]

Use Group Policy Preferences.

 

Does work on 2003 Domains and XP Clients (upwards), you need a Windows 7 Client to create/amend the GPO and KB943729 installed on the workstations.

 

You can map drives, define drive letter, hide/show and even give it a more appropriate label (User Area instead of \\{servname}\{username}$). And finally you get to define targeting, so one GPO can be used for all your domain, with drives letter(s) mapped based on whether the user/computer matches the targeting rule.

 

Or you could just use vbsripts, though the GUI is easier is not confident in scripts etc.

[Luxardo]

Hi John,

 

When you explain that one could use Folder Mapping on a 2008 DC, what excactly do you mean and where can we find these settings?

Can you hide path to folder mappings created by GPO?

Can folders be on a different physical server?

 

 

thanks for any info...

[ricki]

HI

 

What I would do is create a DFS path for the domain. Then link this to the shares you would like the kids to see and map the drive to this location.

 

Richard