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Sharing My Documents from Group of Computers
I have a computer lab of 25 computers. I would like to be able to have all the local My Document folders available as Network Shares for admin purposes but am not sure of the most effecient way of accomplishing this. There is a single user logon "student" used on each machine. Ideally I would like to be able to have access to the share even when the "student" user is not logged in. We are using a domain with Server 2008.
Do you have administrative rights to the systems?
It might be easy enough to use the built-in administrative share (\\COMPUTERNAME\C$) to access the My Documents path. The only thing you would need to change would be the hostname for each system, since you use a standard user account for the students. You could build the shortcuts and put them in a folder, or load them into the Network Places applet.
It might be easy enough to use the built-in administrative share (\\COMPUTERNAME\C$) to access the My Documents path. The only thing you would need to change would be the hostname for each system, since you use a standard user account for the students. You could build the shortcuts and put them in a folder, or load them into the Network Places applet.
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The teacher managing the lab (who has requested this functionality) could be setup as a power user so using the administrative share could work I guess. She always uses a single machine so I guess I could even setup the shortcuts for her as you suggest.
Shortcuts could be put on her personal share as well, so she could access them wherever. If needed, you could setup a policy just for those lab computers to grant her additional administrative access.
but you should be able to connect to the desktop computer via a run command from one stop.
start --> run
\\remotecomputerIPorName\c