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.
There is another reason to prevent them: Several of the viruses
will run down through all the drives, real and mapped, and trash them.
I would like to prevent that (yes, we have virus protection everywhere,
but sometimes they get in before the vendors have a cure).
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Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gaa at ulticom.com +1 856 787 2758
Ulticom Inc., 1020 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 856 866 2033
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That is entirely a client side configuration option, you have to deny the users the ability to do that through the registry(profiles and policies made it pretty in nt 4), I don't remember how to do it off hand but start by looking at the M$ site for clues. Whether they mapped it or hit it through \\server\share is transparent to samba I believe Barry Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Algier" <gaa@ulticom.com> To: "Samba" <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: [Samba] Any way to prevent mapped drives?> 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. > > There is another reason to prevent them: Several of the viruses > will run down through all the drives, real and mapped, and trash them. > I would like to prevent that (yes, we have virus protection everywhere, > but sometimes they get in before the vendors have a cure). > > -- > Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gaa at ulticom.com +1 856 7872758> Ulticom Inc., 1020 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 856 8662033> > A self-addressed envelope would be addressed "envelope." > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
--On Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:05 AM -0500 Gary Algier <gaa@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
It's probably worth noting that some software *requires* a mapped drive, too. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Johnson [mailto:originalskinnyj@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:42 AM To: Gary Algier; Samba Subject: Re: [Samba] Any way to prevent mapped drives? That is entirely a client side configuration option, you have to deny the users the ability to do that through the registry(profiles and policies made it pretty in nt 4), I don't remember how to do it off hand but start by looking at the M$ site for clues. Whether they mapped it or hit it through \\server\share is transparent to samba I believe Barry Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Algier" <gaa@ulticom.com> To: "Samba" <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:05 AM Subject: [Samba] Any way to prevent mapped drives?> 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. > > There is another reason to prevent them: Several of the viruses > will run down through all the drives, real and mapped, and trash them. > I would like to prevent that (yes, we have virus protection everywhere, > but sometimes they get in before the vendors have a cure). > > -- > Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gaa at ulticom.com +1 856 7872758> Ulticom Inc., 1020 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 856 8662033> > A self-addressed envelope would be addressed "envelope." > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >-- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba