Re: Hide full path in Windows explorer of mapped drive


"Sam" <support@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not sure which group this should go in so forgive me for posting the
same question in several groups.

I am using net use in the login script to show mapped drives in Windows
Explorer for my users.

it appears as Share on 'server\share' (V:)

Is there a way to just have it show as Share (V:)? I don't want the full
path there?

Thanks,

Hello,

I don't know of any ways to hide the full path of a mapped drive, however,
you might consider the use of DFS feature, which should be able to hide the
actual path by design, since it's conceived to distribute connections to
share between different servers added to a single namespace.
Via DFS replication, files can be replicated to different servers, and users
connecting to the namespace will access each time a file on a different
location.
There are some drawbacks though, so you might be interested in reading
something about DFS:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775446.aspx -> Evaluating
Client and Server Compatibility

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/dfsfaq.mspx ->
Distributed File System: Frequently Asked Questions

Best regards,
Luca Chiaverini


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