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Started 1 year ago by Ron

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Ron

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A somewhat paranoid exec in our company forced the IT department to hide people's hard drives.

we all log in to a local domain and the group policy contains an instruction which hides the drive letters B,C & D on every PC.

This isn't much of a problem for me as I can go to the address bar, type D:\ and get drive D. But I can't do it from "save as" dialogs in browsers etc.

Any ideas as to how to unhide the drives after login? I won't mind if its something I have to redo manually every day, just the situation is very annoying.

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Posted 1 year ago #
Pierre

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What's the rationale behind hiding these drive letters?

Anyway, you should be able to use the "subst" command to allocate a different letter to the D: drive. You can run it automatically at login time by putting the appropriate shortcut in the "Startup" folder under your "Start" menu.

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Posted 1 year ago #
Ron

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the rational is that everyone should use the file server we are all connected to, so no material will be lost if someone's pc dies.

of course, since they started this, the file server is showing signs of slowing down.

(I'm *helping* - I was told to make a copy of all my local drives to the file server and my pc has most of our CDs, brochures, presentations, technical movies etc. so far I've taken 20% of the file server HD space and expect to take up another 10-15% before I'm done)

Posted 1 year ago #
PJ

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Better to be safe than sorry. Make a back up copy of your back up and store that on the shared drive as well.

Posted 1 year ago #
phreeBase

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Then of course when somebody else needs to access a copy of one of the files, you make a new directory and place a copy of the required file there and point them to it. That way you claim to save mail server bandwidth.

I am constantly amazed at the number of files that reside on the shared network at work, that are subsequently emailed around half the organisation.

Posted 1 year ago #
Pierre

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Only half?

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