Use of local drives

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Alfonso - 27 May 2004 17:51 GMT

I just wanted to know if a client connected to a server
running Windows 2000 Terminal Services could somehow map
or view his local drives so that it could be possible to
transfer files between the local files and the remotely
assigned drives.

Best regards,
Alfonso

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Vera Noest [MVP] - 27 May 2004 21:41 GMT

This functionality is not natively included in W2K TS, but you can
achieve it anyway.

There is a utility in the Resource Kit called drivemap that does
this. All it does is to share the local drives on the client PC
and connect to those drives withing the user session, so you can
easily do this yourself with a login script. Something like:

on the client:
net share C_share_name$ C:\

within the session:
net use X: \\%clientname%\C_share_name$

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> I just wanted to know if a client connected to a server
> running Windows 2000 Terminal Services could somehow map
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> Best regards,
> Alfonso

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Cl?udio Rodrigues - 31 May 2004 04:56 GMT

Remember a couple things:
1. This does NOT work over the Internet unless a VPN is in place.
2. This is NOT secure.
3. This does NOT work on Win9X clients as stated on the article that talks
about DRVMAP.
Use something else like FTPRDP, WTSFTP or even the unsupported TSDropCopy.

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> This functionality is not natively included in W2K TS, but you can
> achieve it anyway.
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> > Best regards,
> > Alfonso

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