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Terminal Server restrict access to C drive

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by david__ 2 views

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I have setup a terminal server and thin clients and all works well.
I wanted to increase security so I created a group policy and chose the policy "Prevent access to drives from My Computer" and selected the "Restrict A, B and C drives only" option. It works great, users can not access teh C: drive in anyway on the terminal server.
The problem is that they no longer can copy things to thier desktops either. They do have local profiles on the terminal server, so I setup roaming profiles and set the location to store them on the D: drive that they do have access to. Still the same problem.
Thanks for all the help.

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by bart777

If you keep that access as is then they will not be able to save to the desktop. Even though you gave them a roaming profile the profile gets copied to the C drive when the user logs in. The security setup that you have will not let them make changes.

Typically I just HIDE the local drives from the users but leave the security alone. I do this thru the local security policies.
OR
I will setup the server so that the user can only see the application that they need. This doesn't work though if you are delivering several applications to the users.

Hope this helps

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