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Well, Lara, please don't take offence, but my experience seems to be
different from yours or perhaps we are not talking about the same thing.
Using Loopback Processing, on our Windows 2003 Terminal Servers, we have
this setting via GPO for all users except Administrators (suppressed for
Administrators by Security Filtering):
User Configuration:
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Windows Explorer
Hide these specified drives in My Computer: Enabled: Restrict A,
B, C, D, E and F drives only (uses a custom ADM to get this set)
I've also used this on Windows XP workstations.
When a user (other than an Administrator) logs on and opens Windows
Explorer, none of these drives show inside My Computer - neither in the tree
view in the left pane, nor the right pane.
However, if such a user keys c:\ in the Windows Explorer Address Bar and
presses Enter, the C drive is added to the left pane and the contents show
in the right pane.
Now, if the Windows Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, View, there is no check
mark in "Display the contents of system folders", the user will get the
message "These files are hidden" in the right pane if the root of the C
drive or the c:\windows folder is selected. However, the user can still
view the contents of other folders to which they have been granted at least
List or Read permission. The "Display the contents of system folders"
setting can be change by the user at any time.
There is another setting in the same GPO Administrative Templates Category
called "Prevent access to drives from My Computer" which may produce the
behaviour you describe (I haven't experimented with that setting).
--
Bruce Sanderson MVP
It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
"lforbes" <DoNotEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
news:3_1223061_5f6544c43f0eeb4b7fde87c678d505ff@windowsforumz.com...
> >Anyone can still navigate anywhere on the "hidden" drive by:
>>
>>1. Start, Run, key c:\ press Enter
>>2. open Windows Explorer, key c:\ in the Address bar; press Enter
>
> Actually no. When you Hide Drives in My Computer and you put C:\ in
> the address bar it says you are restricted from viewing C:\ Certain
> apps may "open" a folder in drive C:\ but then if they navigate
> away it disappears.
>
> My users don’t have access to the run command with GP so that is easy
> to do and I haven’t tested it there.
>
> Cheers,
> Lara