LeonieCol Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Dear all, I am hoping someone can help. Yesterday I was trying to set a policy to disallow students from browsing the network and typing in a UNC path to the server, ie \\servername. I enabled the policies "Remove Run from Start Menu" and "Remove Network Icon from Start Menu" and initial testers. However when the students logged in they weren't getting ANY mapped drives at all. Not even their home drives. Therefore this morning I have changed those policies back so they are not configured. However the students still cannot access their mapped drives and I am wondering if there is another reason for this or maybe I have changed something without realising it! They basically cannot see any mapped drives but can see the CD drive as normal. (C drive is blocked but it's supposed to be). Is there any other policies that stop users being able to see mapped drives that maybe me or my technician may have accidentally set?
FN-GM Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Sounds like a coincidence to me. Can you manually run to these shares?
LeonieCol Posted December 1, 2011 Author Posted December 1, 2011 Yes I can manually do it no problem. So there's obviously not an access issue. The strange thing is that I created a test account in the same OU as all the other students (with the same security rights) and that one sees all the drives fine. It's so odd!
HallX Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Hi LeonieCol I assume your OS is XP, are you using a script to map the drives? Paul
LeonieCol Posted December 1, 2011 Author Posted December 1, 2011 We are using roaming profiles with Windows 7 (and some Vista). I do not use scripts to map the drives but use the group policy setting: User Config / Preferences / Windows Settings / Drive Maps.
Jon_boy1984 Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Therefore this morning I have changed those policies back so they are not configured. I don't know whether this will effect your issue or not, but if you enable a policy and then later on change it back to not configured, I believe that the client PC will keep the enabled setting, or the last setting recieved rather than returning it to default. To reverse what changes you made, you need to disable anything you enabled and enable anything you disabled. I maybe wrong, as I cannot remember where I read that, and unfortunatey don't have time to search.
HallX Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Can you run rsop.msc on your workstations to see what policies are being enforced, you may find conflicting policies, and have you ran gpedit /force? Paul
LeonieCol Posted December 1, 2011 Author Posted December 1, 2011 Jon Boy: Thanks for that - but it didn't work after disabling the policies then trying again, rebooting, logging off etc etc.
LeonieCol Posted December 1, 2011 Author Posted December 1, 2011 rsop is showing that ll policies have been applied successfully (the disabled one)
HallX Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 @LeonieCol It may be the UAC playing up, try creating this reg key: Programs may be unable to access some network locations after you turn on User Account Control in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 Paul
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