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Windows Server Forum / Windows 2000 / Terminal Services / December 2005How to map a drive via a policy
We are running a 2K3 Terminal Server and a shipping program requires a mapped drive which points to a data repository. From the server console, I mapped the drive to W:. However, when the users connect, they do not see the W: drive. The software has the W: drive hard coded, so when they launch the program, they get an error that the W: drive can not be found. So, how do I get it so that all the users that connect get a W: drive mapped upon login? In other words, is there a policy that does drive mapping? Or, should I just map this drive on all the individual client machines so when they connect to the TS, the W: drive will get brought across to the TS session? Thanks for the help. This is typically done in a logon script net use W: \\server\share You can define a TS-specific logon script in your TS Group Policy. _________________________________________________________ Vera Noest MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___ itreman@hotmail.com wrote on 16 dec 2005 in microsoft.public.win2000.termserv.clients: > We are running a 2K3 Terminal Server and a shipping program > requires a mapped drive which points to a data repository. From [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > client machines so when they connect to the TS, the W: drive > will get brought across to the TS session? Thanks for the help. thanks, where is the script used in the group policy? i can't find it anywhere. > ...where is the script used in the group policy? i can't find it > anywhere. "HOW TO: Automatically Run Programs When Users Log On to Windows 2000 Terminal Services." <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321707> "Mark R. Blain" <mblain@operamail.com> wrote on 16 dec 2005 in microsoft.public.win2000.termserv.clients: >> ...where is the script used in the group policy? i can't find >> it anywhere. > > "HOW TO: Automatically Run Programs When Users Log On to Windows > 2000 Terminal Services." > <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321707> But that's not what the original poster wants. The article above describes how to start an application automatically in TS. If you define the login script as the starting application, you will be automatically logged of from the session as soon as the login script has finished. Itreman, here's where you define a login script in a GPO: User Configuration - Windows Settings - Scripts Make sure that you use loopback processing of the GPO, otherwise the script will also run when users log on to their workstation. This is done in: Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Group Policy User Group Policy loopback processing mode Recommended reading: 260370 - How to Apply Group Policy Objects to Terminal Services Servers http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260370 231287 - Loopback Processing of Group Policy http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=231287 _________________________________________________________ Vera Noest MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___ excellent, thanks! is there a way to restrict the user via a GPO to being able to save to the TS session desktop? is there a way to get kixtart to work via that logon script GPO? how do i reference kix and the .kix file? i can't seem to get the script to map the drive, but yet i use kix all time here in the local/non-TS domain. thanks. Could you please quote the previous context of the thread in your reply? I do not see old messages in my newsreader. If a script with a line net use W: \\server\share is not mapping your drive, then do *not* add another level of complexity by using a KixTart script to map the drive. You can't do it more simple than with the net use command, so if that doesn't work, it's probably the GPO which is not applied. You'll have to troubleshoot the GPO, not the script. Do you get an error message? what exactly have you defined in your GPO? Used the full path to the script? Have you tried to run the script manually? Have you verified that the GPO is applied at all? Did you use loopback processing of the same GPO? To which OU is your GPO linked? And in which OU are your user accounts and where is your TS machine account? _________________________________________________________ Vera Noest MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___ itreman@hotmail.com wrote on 19 dec 2005 in microsoft.public.win2000.termserv.clients: > is there a way to get kixtart to work via that logon script GPO? > how do i reference kix and the .kix file? i can't seem to get > the script to map the drive, but yet i use kix all time here in > the local/non-TS domain. thanks. the script does run if i use a batch file and all that is in it is net use F: \\server\username$. the problem is, since there are multiple users, kixtart has to be used to in order to use the @userid command to account for multiple users. therefore, i'm not sure where the script should live. does it go in the netlogon folder of the DC or does it go in the policies folder assigned to that GPO? also, in the script GPO settings, there is a name field and a parameters field. in the name field, i am referencing a batch file which calls kix32.exe and the .kix config file. i am totally open to having a simple batch file do the work without using kixtart if there is a way to map multiple users to an F: drive, where the share name = username$. i have always used kixtart for that. my other question was how to disable the desktop folder from being written to. thanks for all your help. okay i figured it out. confusing because we're working with three domains. now, i just need to figure out how to successfully disable the desktop as a location to save to. i'm trying redirection but i don't think i have the settings right since it is not working. any ideas? thanks. Create a custom desktop folder on a file server, give users only Read and Execute permissions on it and use Desktop redirection in a GPO. _________________________________________________________ Vera Noest MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___ itreman@hotmail.com wrote on 19 dec 2005 in microsoft.public.win2000.termserv.clients: > okay i figured it out. confusing because we're working with > three domains. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > don't think i have the settings right since it is not working. > any ideas? thanks. how do you get redirection to work? i've followed all the procedures, but redirection doesn't work and the user can still save to the desktop. what should the share permissions be? what about the ntfs permissions? what about the GPO settings for desktop redirection? what should those look like? thanks! okay. it doesn't like INGROUP in the kix file. i use it all the time, but for some reason in the TS GPO, it doesn't want it. so, i'm applying everything to everyone who logs on and excluding the IF INGROUP command and it is working. now i just need to figure out how to redirect the desktop and lock it down so no one can save to it. any ideas? thanks! folder redirection doesn't seem to work if the destination folder isn't set to read/write. if folder redirection is enabled and the destination folder is set to read for the users, event id's 101 and 1085 are logged and redirection doesn't work. This is how I configure it: User Configuration - Windows Settings - Folder Redirection - Desktop Settings: Basic (Redirect everyone's folder to the same location) Options: Grant user exclusive rights to Desktop - Disabled Move the contents of Desktop to the new location - Disabled _________________________________________________________ Vera Noest MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___ itreman@hotmail.com wrote on 20 dec 2005 in microsoft.public.win2000.termserv.clients: > folder redirection doesn't seem to work if the destination > folder isn't set to read/write. if folder redirection is enabled > and the destination folder is set to read for the users, event > id's 101 and 1085 are logged and redirection doesn't work. |
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