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Term Serv not map client drive & printer

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my client drives and printer do not show up when i log into term serv, even though the settings are correct.

I've checked the settings for the user, it says to map client drives and printers but it doesn't do it upon login. Am I missing somethinghere?

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by curacao_dejavu

I assume you are using the NT Terminal Server without the Citrix add-on.
With Citrix you have to do something else.

See the MS KB:
Article ID: Q192522

How to Make Client Local Drive Available to Terminal Server

SUMMARY
When a client is logged on to a Terminal Server, the local drives of the computer from which he or she is connecting are not available. This article describes how to make a client's local drives available, while logged on as a client, to Microsoft Windows NT TerminalServer.

MORE INFORMATION
You can use the following steps to make the client's local drives available to them while he or she is logged on to Windows Terminal Server:

On the client's computer, go to the root of the drive you want to make available. Create a new share. Assign permissions only to the user whom you want to have access to the data.

Log the user on to the Windows Terminal Server, and then use the "Map Network Drive" option from Windows NT Explorer to connect theshared local drive.

Now the local drive will be available to the user while that user is logged on to the Terminal Server Client.

regards,

Leopold

by flan

correct, no citrix, but i need to map non-local machine client drives. so 'Map Network Drive' will not work.

by @lberto

This is a very common issue if you are using Terminal Server without Citrix.

from the Command prompt type

net use \\client\A$
A$ = Your Pc's Floppy disk drive
C$ = Your Pc's Hard drive
D$ = Your Pc's CDROM drive
L$ = Your Pc's Hard drive

Also you can check at MS KB:

Article ID: Q192522

How to Make Client Local Drive Available to Terminal Server

I Hope it helps you

Good luck,

@lberto

by curacao_dejavu

hmm, won't work.

Maybe if you map the drive locally and after that use the subst command so the local pc will see it as a driveletter, then maybe you can map the driveletter in terminalserver.

Leopold

by flan

would if i could, but the system cannot see the local machines, otherwise i wouldn't even use terminal server

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