Drive Redirection + Group Policies...

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Hi Guys,

This is probably the dumbest question anyone has ever asked...but
would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

Right now we have a Win2003 Server (domain controller) which users
connect to using Remote Desktop. I want to be able to enable drive
redirection (show local drives) for admin users and disable the drive
redirection for normal users.

I have setup two group policies, one for Admins and another linked to
a security group I defined, which all the normal users are members of.
The "Do not allow drive redirection" policy is DISABLED in the admin
policy and ENABLED in the normal users policy (so the two polices have
conflicting settings). But the result I am getting depends on the
precedence order I apply in Linked Group Policy Objects tab in the
Group Policy Management Console. The result is either everyone gets to
see the local drives or nobody does. I cannot figure out why this is
the case.

I guess I am missing something or have this completely wrong...

Thanks in advance

David

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