Reserve drive letter

in my situation, drive H has been assigned to network share. sometime, when
user connect USB drive to the comptuer, drive letter H will be assigned to
this USB drive, IS there any easy way to reserv drive H, also need to deploy
this solution to all computers in our orgnization. Thanks!!

Jing Ming:

> in my situation, drive H has been assigned to network share. sometime, when
> user connect USB drive to the comptuer, drive letter H will be assigned to
> this USB drive, IS there any easy way to reserv drive H, also need to deploy

Can't you connect the USB drive, then select another letter for that?
That letter will be remembered for that USB device from that point.

(I had the same problem :-)
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Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!

Of course that is a solution, but that need some manule work. I am trying to
find a solution could fix this issue for more than 1000 users.

"Lars-Erik Østerud" wrote:

> Jing Ming:
>
> > in my situation, drive H has been assigned to network share. sometime, when
> > user connect USB drive to the comptuer, drive letter H will be assigned to
> > this USB drive, IS there any easy way to reserv drive H, also need to deploy
>
> Can't you connect the USB drive, then select another letter for that?
> That letter will be remembered for that USB device from that point.
>
> (I had the same problem :-)
> --
> Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
> WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!
>

Jing Ming:

> Of course that is a solution, but that need some manule work. I am trying to
> find a solution could fix this issue for more than 1000 users.

OK, do you have any tools to see regsitry changes. Then you could see
what is stored when a USB drive or network drive is connected and
assign (manually) a specific drive letter? Then you can make a .reg
file and deploy that.
--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!

This is a good idea. But is there any other tools other than regtrace? Thanks

Jing

"Lars-Erik Østerud" wrote:

> Jing Ming:
>
> > Of course that is a solution, but that need some manule work. I am trying to
> > find a solution could fix this issue for more than 1000 users.
>
> OK, do you have any tools to see regsitry changes. Then you could see
> what is stored when a USB drive or network drive is connected and
> assign (manually) a specific drive letter? Then you can make a .reg
> file and deploy that.
> --
> Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
> WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!
>

Jing Ming wrote:
> in my situation, drive H has been assigned to network share. sometime, when
> user connect USB drive to the comptuer, drive letter H will be assigned to
> this USB drive, IS there any easy way to reserv drive H, also need to deploy
> this solution to all computers in our orgnization. Thanks!!

No, there is no build in solution. This happens when
H is the first free local letter. Network shares are
no local letters, they are user specific so the mount
mananger cannot see them.

I've written a small Windows service that can automatically
remount newly attached USB drives to different letters.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
It has a silent install option so it's possible to install
it on the clients without user interaction.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
> Jing Ming:
>
>> Of course that is a solution, but that need some manule work. I am trying to
>> find a solution could fix this issue for more than 1000 users.
>
> OK, do you have any tools to see regsitry changes. Then you could see
> what is stored when a USB drive or network drive is connected and
> assign (manually) a specific drive letter? Then you can make a .reg
> file and deploy that.

That will work only if all users use exactely the same
USB drive without or with identical serial number.


Uwe

Thanks, I will try your tools. And let you know what the result is!

Jing

"Uwe Sieber" wrote:

> Jing Ming wrote:
> > in my situation, drive H has been assigned to network share. sometime, when
> > user connect USB drive to the comptuer, drive letter H will be assigned to
> > this USB drive, IS there any easy way to reserv drive H, also need to deploy
> > this solution to all computers in our orgnization. Thanks!!
>
> No, there is no build in solution. This happens when
> H is the first free local letter. Network shares are
> no local letters, they are user specific so the mount
> mananger cannot see them.
>
> I've written a small Windows service that can automatically
> remount newly attached USB drives to different letters.
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
> It has a silent install option so it's possible to install
> it on the clients without user interaction.
>
>
> Greetings from Germany
>
> Uwe
>