Hide Mapped Drives from End Users

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

On 8 Sep 2004 07:33:01 -0700, jricklin@hotmail.com (Yeimi) wrote:

>I work for a company running Windows 2000 SBS with an additional NT4
>Server that houses a legacy database. All workstations run Windows XP
>Professional. In order for the database to work properly, all users
>must have drives F: and V: mapped to certain folders on the NT4
>Server. A logon script on the 2K server automatically maps these
>drives for users.
>
>Employees has no reason to access anything on these drives manually,
>and because NT4 is rather lacking in security, I want to prevent users
>from seeing these 2 drives in My Computer and Windows Explorer. I did
>some searching and found 2 recommendations:
>
>-Use Group Policy to hide the drives
>-Use TweakUI to hide the drives
>
>Neither of these solutions appear relevant to my situation. The Group
>Policy only allows you to hide specific drives (I think it was A-D).
>TweakUI is user dependant, so if I hide the drives while logged in as
>the admin, they still appear when a different user logs in. A user
>with restricted permissions cannot access to necessary features of
>TweakUI, so I cannot log in as the employee and hide it for them.
>
>Do I have any other options?
>
>Thanks,
>Jen Ricklin


See tip 3636 and 0050/NoDrive in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Implement these on the clients.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com