Re: my network places re-appears

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Hi Bruce, thank you for your reply.

We have appropriate permissions set on the network shares and the system
prompts for the password if someone directly enters the address. I understand
that the No Network Places is supposed to only hide it however should it not
remain hidden while I'm manually entering addresses in Window Explorer?

Thanks

Jason


"Bruce Sanderson" wrote:

> The way to manage access control is via Share and NTFS permissions. If you
> don't want some users to access some files and folders, make sure that no
> groups they are members of appear in the Permissions list.
>
> Only Shares that are hidden (i.e. that have "$" as the last character of
> their name) will be completely invisible.
>
> The Help (Explain text) for "No Entire Network..." is quite clear; it only
> hides the "Entire Network" entry in My Network Places - it does not prevent
> access to shares over the network via other means.
>
> In general, hiding things does not prevent access - it only means they don't
> appear in the "usual" places.
>
> --
> Bruce Sanderson MVP
>
> It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
>
>
> "Jason Dulberg" <Jason Dulberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:B223EFE8-8A96-4C8F-B7AF-D87A9975FD14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Under Windows Components/Windows Explorer, I have "No Entire Network in My
> > Network Places" enabled. When I go Win Explorer, this does not display as
> > expected however, if I type \\servername\sharename for example, all of the
> > network drives show up and "Network Places" re-appears. Is there a way to
> > restrict this access and maintain the invisibility of "My Network Places"?
> >
> > Basically I'd like to hide all the drives that users would not be able to
> > see without them being mapped at login. The user has to know the server
> > names
> > and folders however I'd still like to have some protection from access.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be great!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jason
>
>
>
.

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