Hide UNC path to mapped drives...?

[JonnieStyle]

Hi all.

Does anybody know how I can hide the UNC path on mapped drives from my
users? Is there a group policy or script I can employ so all the user
will see in Windows XP Pro "z:" and not
"z:\\server\secret-hidden-share$\no-snooping$"...

Cheers.

 

[Ryan Hanisco]

There really isn't a way to do that in windows. I suppose if you really
wanted to you could Create a share to aggregate those shares on the server
and use a mount point to mount the hidden area and share from there. That's
a bit convoluted... but it works.

Otherwise, I would suggest you start looking for 3rd party tools.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Jonnie,

I want to say that I have seen something somewhere about changing what the
users see. It is a registry setting, if I remember correctly. I want to
say that you should look at Jerold's site ( http://www.jsiinc.com ) for
this. But I really can not remember exactly.

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24014
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

If I recall correctly, this is a unicode string in the user portion of the
registry, but separate from HKCU\Network, where actual drive mappings live.
Afraid I can't remember the specifics, either.

Oli

 

[jonniestyle]

I used this vbs script:

mDrive = "the drive letter you'd like:"
Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
oShell.NameSpace(mDrive).Self.Name = "What you want to call the drive"

in conjuction with a batch script that mapped the share.
Works like a charm!

Cheers.

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Nice! Thanks for the info.

Oli

 

[Ryan Hanisco]

Cool. I love learning new things.