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craig.johnson

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Mar 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/2/99
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I created a modified policy to hide the C: and D: drive on our Terminal
Server. That, combined with protions of the ZAK to hide and set permissions
on those drives seems to be working adequately. (i.e, no one has accidently
deleted any files...)

Here is the entry in the is the shell section I modified of the common.adm
See the "POLICY !!HideDrivesCD" section. I included the rest of the shell
section for clarity.

You will want to check the technet article for importing registry settings.
I can send you the entire file if you are interested.

CATEGORY !!Shell
CATEGORY !!Restrictions
KEYNAME Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
POLICY !!RemoveRun
VALUENAME "NoRun"
END POLICY

POLICY !!RemoveFolders
VALUENAME "NoSetFolders"
END POLICY

POLICY !!RemoveTaskbar
VALUENAME "NoSetTaskbar"
END POLICY

POLICY !!RemoveFind
VALUENAME "NoFind"
END POLICY

POLICY !!HideDrives
VALUENAME "NoDrives"
VALUEON NUMERIC 67108863 ; low 26 bits on (1 bit per drive)
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!HideDrivesCD
VALUENAME "NoDrives"
VALUEON NUMERIC 12 ; low order bits 3 & 4 (1 bit per drive)
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY


POLICY !!HideNetHood
VALUENAME "NoNetHood"
END POLICY

POLICY !!NoEntireNetwork
KEYNAME Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network
VALUENAME "NoEntireNetwork"
END POLICY

POLICY !!NoWorkgroupContents
KEYNAME Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network
VALUENAME "NoWorkgroupContents"
END POLICY

POLICY !!HideDesktop
VALUENAME "NoDesktop"
END POLICY

POLICY !!DisableClose
VALUENAME "NoClose"
END POLICY

POLICY !!NoSaveSettings
VALUENAME "NoSaveSettings"
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
END CATEGORY ; Shell


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Peter Dampier

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Mar 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/3/99
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:54:21 -0700, "craig.johnson"
<craig....@home.com> wrote:

>I created a modified policy to hide the C: and D: drive on our Terminal
>Server. That, combined with protions of the ZAK to hide and set permissions
>on those drives seems to be working adequately. (i.e, no one has accidently
>deleted any files...)


What about hiding C: and D: drives that have been remapped by
Metaframe to be M: and N:

Can these be hidden and yet still used by apps but just hidden from
users?

Kempy

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Mar 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/3/99
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Within the ZAKWINNT.ADM file you edit, you can perform a binary calculation
( described in the file ) to hide any drive letters you wish to.

Neil Kemp
ga...@dial.pipex.com
Basilica Computing Limited.

Peter Dampier wrote in message <36ddb46f...@msnews.microsoft.com>...

Phil Davey

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Mar 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/4/99
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In article <epSLPuXZ#GA....@uppssnewspub04.moswest.msn.net>,

"Kempy" <ga...@dial.pipex.com> writes:
> Within the ZAKWINNT.ADM file you edit, you can perform a binary calculation
> ( described in the file ) to hide any drive letters you wish to.

I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work as expected.

On the server, we have drives M: (system) N: (users home dirs) O: (swap
space) P: (server CDROM) W: (short cut to users home) and Z: (another home
short cut).

What we would like to do is hide MNOPZ and leave W: and any mapped client
drives (ie C: D: etc) visible.

Using the ZAK policy to hide MNOPZ only works, but it stops client drives
being mapped automatically (to any drive letter).

Take this policy out, and all drives reappear (both server and client).

Any ideas?

Phil
Email pd...@cam.ac.uk


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