Displaying Share in My Network Places

[Shahzad Rasool]

Dear all,

Hello,

i've a problem.

I need to display a shared folder to a certain number of users in an OU
through "My Network Places" window. Shared folder is required to be the only
displayed item (as a network place) in "My Network Places", beside "Add
Network Places" item.

"Entire Network" & "Computers Near Me" are being hidden from group policy
applied onto that OU.

Display of all drives (including network drives) is also disabled via Group
policy for that OU.

Publishing that shared folder into that OU does not automatically makes the
shared folder appear in "My Network Places". Running a script to create a
networked drive also doesn't display the shared folder in "My Network
Places", rather just creates a network drive.

 

[Ken F]

There are gpo's which can replace the network neighborhood with a custom
list. This custom list could be empty or only have a few entries like
relevant servers. I am unsure of where exactly in the Policy it is
located.....perhaps someone can add info, or this will give you enough info
to proceed.

 

[Randy Wilson]

Your best bet, if you have a 2000 domain, log onto an XP machine in that
domain and download the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/default.mspx and see what is
being applied to the domain and exactly what triggers inside each GPO are
causing your problem.

If you have a 2003 server in the domain, you can also run it from there, but
it will not run on a 2000 workstation or server (at least that is what I am
told - never tried it!).

Randy