Getting access to drives mapped on remote workstations, in the Client / End User Issues forum on BrianMadden.com

I have users from a remote network connecting to an application on our local PS4.0 servers. The users have disks from their remote network mapped to there workstations. The users want to save data from the Citrix application to the mapped drive on there workstation. The remote file servers are not accessable to the PS4.0 servers. Is there away to get those mapped drives to be accessable ?

Thanks Craig

You can't. Let the users copy the file to the local mapped drive first, and then to the remote drive.

Just and FYI, I found that it is possable to do this.

Craig, would you mind elaborating?

Kevin

He's probably referring to manually mapping the network drive through the ica channel which can be done. It's just not done automatically like local drives.

I created a BAT file that contained:

@echo off
net use H: \\client\h$

I placed this BAT file into a GroupPolicy for logon

This then gave them in Citrix a H: drive that pointed to the mapped H: drive on there PC.

Craig

You can enumerate any client side mapped drives and connect them automatically. Look at the command "change client /view". You can pipe these into a text file like this: change client /view | find "Remote" | find "Disk" > drives.txt.

Rudy,

Your approach is really interesting and potentially solves our issue of multiple users from different companies with variable drive letters for thier networked drives.

What do we need to do with the drives.txt for the network drives to be mapped?

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks,
Sajeel