Mapping drive using GPO

[saqib ali]

Hello All,

Can anyone gimme some info on how to map a network drive using Group
Policies. I am NOT talking about mapping using Login Script.

PolicyMaker™ from DesktopStandard.com allows you do that. For sreenshot,
please see the url below:

http://www.xml-dev.com/xml/images/DriveMapsGPO.PNG

I know I can do it with PolicyMaker. But I am trying to make it work
with the use of PolicyMakee. There are some registry keys that allow you
to do this. But I haven't quite figured them out yet.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Saqib Ali
http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/

 

[Florian Frommherz]

Howdy Saqib!

Can anyone gimme some info on how to map a network drive using Group
Policies. I am NOT talking about mapping using Login Script.
Any ideas?

You can create a custom ADM template for that. Have a look at this:
http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/adm/DriveMappings.txt
It's from Mark Heitbrink's german website about group policies - but
although it's german it might be helpful for you.

cheers,

Florian

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

If you don't fancy the German version that Florian posted, try this one,
which is in English.

http://www.willowhayes.co.uk/download/drives.adm

You will need disable the option to "show only policy settings that can be
fully managed".

Leave the "connect as" field blank, and set "Microsoft Windows Network" as
the provider name.

Note that you can also use selected environment variables, such as
%username%.

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Hi,

http://www.willowhayes.co.uk/download/drives.adm
You will need disable the option to "show only policy settings
that can be fully managed".

Just as an addition:
Instead of a login script, this connection will not be recreated,
if a user disconnect the mapping.
This will only be reapplied, if the GPO is updated and the version
counter of the GPT.ini will get a higher value, than the client
has cached inside his policy history.

You can advice the registry policy client side extension to always
load the settings, even if the version is not changed, but that can
produce much more traffice and perhaps on a much longer login
procedure (depends on your GPOs).

Mark