[THIN] Re: Common Open File Dialog Box - mapped drives not appearing

Did you hide "My Computer" on the desktop?

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Edward VanDewars
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 8:19 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Common Open File Dialog Box - mapped drives not appearing

 

I have a GPO with settings that are preventing users from seeing any mapped 
network drives in any  applications that use
the Windows "Common Open File Dialog Box" and I can't figure out what the 
problem is.  Specifically, if a user selects
"File - Open" in an app that uses the COFDB (like notepad) and then clicks on 
the "Look in" dropdown they do not see any
drives (or they receive "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions 
. . . " if I turn on "Prevent access to
these drives: A,B,C,D").  If a user manually types in a mapped drive path in 
the "File Name" field they will see that
drive (both the contents and it will appear in the "Look in" box but the 
drop-down will still not work).  

If I disable this one specific GPO or move the server out of the relevant OU 
then everything works as expected, so I
know it's something in the GPO (the GPO has lookback/merged enabled).

My goal is to have users NOT see local drives (A,C,D) but obviously to be able 
to see their mapped drives. 

I thought the seemingly only relevant GPO settings were:
User Config\Admin Templ\Win Comp\Windows Explorer:
 - Hide these specified drives: A,B,C,D (I've triple-checked that it's only 
those drives and the network drives that
should appear are H:\ or "higher") 
 - Prevent access to drives: A,B,C,D (I've triple-checked that it's only those 
drives and the network drives that should
appear are H:\ or "higher")
 - Remove folder options menu from tools menu: Enabled
 - Common Open File Dialog\Hide places bar: Enabled

If I turn off "Prevent access" then the user doesn't receive the "operation has 
been cancelled" error when they click on
the look-in list but they still don't see their drives and if I turn off all of 
the above they still don't see their
drives (by "turn off" I mean I set back to "Not configured").  So, turning off 
all the above does not fix the problem
but disabling the GPO does, so is there some other setting that I am missing? 

Needless to say this is driving me nuts.  The other oddity is that Office 2003 
apps work ok - i.e. they do not show
local drives but do show mapped drives and the drop-down works.  However, I 
know Office does not use the COFDB (plus I
use a GPO to set the default file location to a mapped drive, not that that 
should matter).

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