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Windows Forum / Windows XP / General Topics 1 / May 2008Mapping a network drive and hide the connection to usrs
I am currently working on a small application, created in VB5, that requires me to map to a network drive on a Win 2003 server when a user launches the application and disconect from the drive when the application is closed down. This is fairly straight forward to do, but here is the twist. The mapped drive that is created by the application should not be avaliable to the user within My Computer or Windows Explorer. Can this be done and how simple is it to do if it can be done? I have been looking around for the past couple of days trying to find some way of doing this but I have had no luck. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Kenny >I am currently working on a small application, created in VB5, that >requires [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Kenny I don't think you can do this - it goes against the very grain of Windows Explorer. You should be able to do it with group policies, you can selectively hide drive letters there. The corresponding registry edit for it is shown here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158457 John > I am currently working on a small application, created in VB5, that requires > me to map to a network drive on a Win 2003 server when a user launches the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Kenny Thanks, ill give this a shot. Kenny > You should be able to do it with group policies, you can selectively > hide drive letters there. The corresponding registry edit for it is [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > Kenny You're welcome. John > Thanks, ill give this a shot. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>> >>>Kenny I realize you said your application requires you to map a drive. But, if that's not actually a requirement, you could try using a universal naming convention (UNC) and avoid mapping a drive. UNC format: \\servername\sharename\path\filename > I am currently working on a small application, created in VB5, that requires > me to map to a network drive on a Win 2003 server when a user launches the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Kenny Thanks for the help. I will give this a shot along with what John John has suggested. Kenny. > I realize you said your application requires you to map a drive. But, if > that's not actually a requirement, you could try using a universal naming [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Kenny |
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