How-to map network drive to be hidden from users?

assign a drive to a folder, but as far as I know, this has to be rempaed on the local machine by hand.
An alias will do what you want, the trick is batching the alis into a boot script. VB script would do this, but im VB illeriterate.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/nt/registry/rtips104.shtml
has some info on registry mods that will hide a letter, so you could create a boot script that modded the registry and maped the drive to the hidden letter.

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http://www.itnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/topic20184.aspx
Had nearly the same question and seemed to find an answer, read the last post.

If a share is open to the network, it can be seen. It may not be accessible without uname/passwd and may have a leading $ to make it hidden.. but it can be seen.

On the local side, you may be able to map a share to a directory name rather than letter. I believe someone mentioned that option. If mapped to a letter, it is visible unless you can always map to that same level and have it inaccessible to the user's account settings (AD policy type stuff).

Another option is to just use the absolute path. Leave the share unmapped and have those who should be able to make use of it go to the \\server\share name rather than a mapped L:\ location. I tend to use this because I always want to reach my shared directories at work without having to remount them by hand on each new machine I use. I can't be sure recipients have the drive letter mapped so I give then the \\server\shared path as I know it will work provided they have permissions to that area.