Re: Client Drive Redirection Issues after Upgrade...Please help...

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From: James Crane (administrator_at_*nospam*.westlawngraphic.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:25:40 -0400

I know it will work fine with a clean install.....that's what I'm
trying to avoid though....

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 06:11:02 -0700, "Patrick Rouse [MVP]"
<PatrickRouseMVP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have never seen this problem before and would suggest that you setup a test
>box that is a clean install, not an upgrade from 2000 and see if yoou have
>the same problem.
>
>Although the upgrade from 2000 to 2003 is farily painless, I've found that a
>lot of people do this on single terminal server systems w/o testing first,
>which is asking for trouble.
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>"James Crane" wrote:
>
>> Also, I'm not the only person experiencing this. Here are some posts
>> from the microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.client group :
>>
>> From: "KIWI" <john_hastie@nospamhotmail.com>
>> Subject: Local drive mappings
>> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:51:58 -0700
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>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a couple of Windows 2003 Terminal Servers and even though the
>> local
>> resources disk drive option is selected the drives do not map when
>> connected
>> using the Win XP client. I do not have any issues on other W2K3
>> Terminal
>> Servers and the only thing different with these 2 is that they were
>> upgraded
>> machines initally running Windows 2000 TS.
>>
>> I'm thinking htere is some legacy piece or dll file that has remained
>> from
>> the Windows 2000 installation and rather than comletely rebuild the
>> servers
>> I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas on getting them to work
>> correctly.
>>
>> TIA
>> KIWI
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> From: jeffstrong@comcast.net (Jeff)
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.client
>> Subject: Terminal server 2003 local drive access not available non
>> admin
>> Date: 31 Jul 2004 06:48:18 -0700
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>> microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.client:12851
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>> Performed an upgrade from terminal server 2000 to 2003. This is a
>> member server of a domain. Added the appropriate users to the local
>> Remote Desktop Users group to allow them login. The users can login,
>> but to not see local redirected drives even if checking the option in
>> the RDP client. However, if a user is a member of the terminal
>> server's local administrator's group, they do see the drives. I
>> obviously can't leave everyone a member of the local computer's admin
>> group. I've done a new install of a 2003 terminal server before and
>> didn't have this issue. Is there a security setting that I'm missing
>> somwhere? Permission compatibility is set to Relaxed Security. Any
>> help is much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:03:14 -0400, James Crane
>> <administrator@*nospam*westlawngraphic.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Thanks for the response Patrick.....
>> >
>> >Why does moving them to the local Administrators group on the terminal
>> >server fix the problem without changing any other settings on their
>> >user account then? The users are not even in an OU in Active
>> >Directory, they are in the ordinary Users container. If it was a GPO
>> >that was causing this, moving them to the local Adminstrators group on
>> >the terminal server should have no effect, since a GPO overrides any
>> >local policies.... This is not a client issue either. Connecting
>> >from the same machine as the same user maps the drives when they are
>> >members of the local Administrators group on the terminal server. As
>> >soon as you remove them from the Administrators group and place them
>> >in the Remote Desktop Users group, the drives stop redirecting. It
>> >definitely seems like a permissions problem at the terminal server
>> >itself....almost like the upgrade failed to grant the proper
>> >permissions to the Remote Desktop Users group.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:25:01 -0700, "Patrick Rouse [MVP]"
>> ><PatrickRouseMVP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>This can be disabled in the user's account, at the server level or via GPO.
>> >>Make sure the end user is using Remote Desktop Client 5.1 or higher and that
>> >>they have disk drives checked in the local devices section.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>"James Crane" wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> After upgrading a Windows 2000 Server terminal server to Windows
>> >>> Server 2003, only local Administrators of the terminal server can have
>> >>> their local drives redirect in their RDP session. If I add the users
>> >>> to the local Administrators groups, their drives will redirect also.
>> >>> Obviously, I don't want to give all my domain users full
>> >>> administrative privileges of the terminal server..... Is their a
>> >>> local policy that I need to configure to allow Remote Desktop Users
>> >>> the ability to redirect their local drives??
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.....
>> >>>
>> >>> Jim
>> >>>
>>
>>

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