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How do I restrict home folders in group policy based on a computer?

Basically my problem is, I am using a couple external harddrives as cheap offsite backup. And everytime I try to plug in a drive it trys to give it the address of H: which happens to be set as a drive map to the home folder for all users. I was wondering if there was a way in active directory to not allow mapped drives on a machine, or to disable home folders on a machine.

Thanks,

Will Szymkowski

You can do this with a GPO...
Configure the settings in GP User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer. Remove "Map Network Drive" and "Disconnect Network Drive".

This will remove the Map Network Drive and Disconnect Network Drive commands from the toolbar and Tools menus in Explorer and My Network Places and removes these commands from menus that appear when you right-click the Windows Explorer or My Network Places icons

Ref link - http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html;jsessionid=6960E568EB2C6878340A6CDA8B371B39?forumID=101&threadID=218237&messageID=2209916&tag=content;leftCol

hope this helps~!

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Justin Owens

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omnipotentone

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No sorry that doesn't help, the drives are mapped as the user logs in. Thanks though.

Justin Owens

That is why I suggested a separate (or appended) logon scrip which will un-map the drive after it is mapped. :)

omnipotentone

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Justin,

That isn't a bad idea. I know it will work...

Anyone else have anything better? I thought of tweak ui and was going to test that.

Glen Knight

This question has been classified as abandoned and is being closed as part of the Cleanup Program. See my comment at the end of the question for more details.