Hide UNC path to mapped drives...?

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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.

 

[Guest]

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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.

--
Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCDBA
Flagship Integration Services

"JonnieStyle" <jonniestyle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

 

[Guest]

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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



"JonnieStyle" <jonniestyle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

 

[Guest]

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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


"Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" <cwshultz@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
>
> "JonnieStyle" <jonniestyle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b8167087.0501221133.733213aa@posting.google.com...
>> 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.
>
>

 

[Guest]

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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.

 

[Guest]

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Nice! Thanks for the info.

Oli


<jonniestyle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>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.
>

 

[Guest]

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Cool. I love learning new things.

--
Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCDBA
Flagship Integration Services

<jonniestyle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1106526091.326658.182750@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>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.
>