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Craig DeRousse Posted: Thu, Jul 19 2007 8:52 AM
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 ?

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walter franken replied on Thu, Jul 19 2007 1:02 PM
You can't. Let the users copy the file to the local mapped drive first, and then to the remote drive.
mcse, rcp, ccna, ccsp, cca, ccea, ccia 4.0, cca 4.5 etc :-)
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Craig DeRousse replied on Wed, Jul 25 2007 8:32 AM
Just and FYI, I found that it is possable to do this.
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Kevin Stewart replied on Wed, Jul 25 2007 11:48 AM
Craig, would you mind elaborating?

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Jeff Pitsch replied on Wed, Jul 25 2007 2:07 PM
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.
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Craig DeRousse replied on Fri, Jul 27 2007 10:20 AM
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.

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Rudy Bauer replied on Fri, Jul 27 2007 10:59 AM
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.

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Sajeel replied on Thu, Oct 23 2008 12:18 PM
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.

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w1ljam35 replied on Fri, Jun 19 2009 1:19 PM

When I do this I don't see any 'remote' drives. Only hard drives and CD. Am I missing a switch or setting? Thanks.

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w1ljam35 replied on Fri, Jun 19 2009 2:29 PM

When I try this I get the following error:

System error 55 has occurred.

The specified network resource or device is no longer available.

Is there something else I need to do to make this work? Thanks.

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