[Samba] Any way to prevent mapped drives?
John Benedetto
jbenedet at unm.edu
Thu Feb 21 09:55:02 GMT 2002
--On Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:05 AM -0500 Gary Algier
<gaa at ulticom.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to prevent users from mapping drive letters to Samba
> shares?
>
> We are constantly getting user problems like: "I can't find my files on
> my F: drive. Please restore it". They expect us to know where their
> F: drive was mapped. We try to show users how to use UNCs and shortcuts,
> but I would like to prevent mapped drives.
Using a logon script which maps drives FOR the user is one way to rein this
problem in (at least a little). Because of this, most of our users have no
idea that they *CAN* map a drive to a different letter.
- john
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