Is It Possible to Hide a Mapped Drive in XP?
We need to map a drive on a client machine to our server and want the drive to be accessible yet invisible to the user. Is there anyway in XP to hide a mapped drive?
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Lee W, MVP
Any reason you don't just use UNC paths?
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leew, we do use UNC paths but pass-through authentication is broken and prompts the user for credentials which affects our application.
akahan, thanks for your reply! we used tweakui last night and was able to deliver the first laptop to one of our clients this morning.
akahan, thanks for your reply! we used tweakui last night and was able to deliver the first laptop to one of our clients this morning.
Using a UNC path would be the option I would explore. No drive letter, so the user doesn't even know about it.
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You can make the change in the registry as well, which is all that TweakUI is doing. Export the keys and have your install package for the application add that key as well.
You can make the change in the registry as well, which is all that TweakUI is doing. Export the keys and have your install package for the application add that key as well.