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Hiding mapped share

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by quake

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Is there a way under windows environment to map a share in a way that the user can't see it?
I don't mean by hiding it with the "$" sign.
What I mean is the share is mapped to any letter, but when the user opens explorer they can't see it?
I runa software auditing program at useres logon that requires a mapped drive and read and write access to it. Some users have been saving files to that share, which I want to avoid.

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by jordana

I don't beleive so. Why not unmap the drive when the inventory is finished, or does the inventory run continuously? Can you set the inventory agent to run as a service using srvany? Then you could use a service account to run it and apply NTFS perms to the mapped drive...

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by kahindo

There is no way of hiding a mapped drive. the best option is map the drive, use it in the logon script and then delete it. you can delete it using net use k: /d , assuming your drive was k:.

by #aix!

I agree with JordanA. Use the UNC path if possible (\\servername\path). If you can not do that, Policy Editor or TweakUI might help. It's been a while so I am not sure if you can completely hide the mapped drive in either, but I know that you can lock it so the user can not view or remove the map.

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