Thumb drive and home folder set to F drive

G

Guest

Hello and thanks in advance,

Unfortunately for me the techie that set up my network 4 years ago set the
home folder in AD to a network drive mapped as F drive. The F drive now has
redirection of My Documents, Application Data, Desktop folder etc. on it and
can't be easily changed.

Now for the problem, every time a user plugs in a thumb drive it takes the F
drive letter and can't be seen in My Computer and yes I know how to change
the drive letter to another one, but each time a user uses a different thumb
drive the changing drive letter process has to be completed again.

What I am looking for is a way to change the default drive letter that a
removable disk uses and then roll out the solution to 150 users, preferably
via a registry hack and a logon script (this part I can do).

I have searched for the last 2 days for a solution to hacking the registry
to achieve my goal to no avail.

Server OS is Windows 2003 and Desktop OS is Windows XP.

Thanks again,
Mike
 
U

Uwe Sieber

Mike said:
Unfortunately for me the techie that set up my network 4 years ago set the
home folder in AD to a network drive mapped as F drive. The F drive now has
redirection of My Documents, Application Data, Desktop folder etc. on it and
can't be easily changed.

Now for the problem, every time a user plugs in a thumb drive it takes the F
drive letter and can't be seen in My Computer and yes I know how to change
the drive letter to another one, but each time a user uses a different thumb
drive the changing drive letter process has to be completed again.

What I am looking for is a way to change the default drive letter that a
removable disk uses and then roll out the solution to 150 users, preferably
via a registry hack and a logon script (this part I can do).



No build in mechanism for that. Therefore I wrote the
USB drive letter manager:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Uwe
 
G

Guest

Dear Uwe,

Thank you for your assistence, this worked perfectly. I will be discussing
the purchasing of a site license of your program with my managers shortly.

Thank you again.
Mike
 

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