[THIN] Re: Naming a subst'd drive
- From: "Tom Howarth" <Tom.howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:36:37 -0000
That'll be your solution then ;)
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Wood
Sent: 11 December 2007 14:07
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Naming a subst'd drive
Tom,
As I explained while I was in the pub while waiting to go to see the new
Blade Runner last night and not in any way upset at not having got tickets
to go to the Led Zepplin gig at the o2 .. with the Citrix USB Utility you
can allow users 'dynamically' add USB drives
What the utility does is use NTFS to link the contents of your usb drive to
a directory on your local machine - so when you plug in a drive you get a
directory e.g. c:\citrixusbstore\drive_e which you can read/write too.
This directory is visible via the client drive mapping - allowing you to
'dynamically' see add/removed drives from an ica session without having to
log off/on.
Now, I couldn't run the command net use m: \\client\c$\clientdir
<file:///\\client\c$\clientdir> - it would always fail - I get a 'the
specified network resource or device is no longer available'. I wondered
last night if it was because the mapped directory was long (by default its
\\client\c$\clientdir\citrixusbstore
<file:///\\client\c$\clientdir\citrixusbstore> ) - but I've tested it again
this morning with '\\client\c$\temp' and it still doesn't work. I'd be
interested to know if others have the same problem or if its just something
quirky I've got on this environment.
I could use:
net use m: \\client\c$ <file:///\\client\c$> and then subst n:\
m:\citrixusbstore
or
subst n: \\client\c$\citrixusbstore <file:///\\client\c$\citrixusbstore>
In both these instances the default label for the drive is 'disconnected
drive' - which isn't pretty.
After the conversation last night I've looked at issuing a /persistent
command - that didn't work either L
You can rename the disconnected drive in explorer, but not (when I tested
last night) programmatically as the drive doesn't appear in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 until
*after* the logon scripts have finished for some reason :?
That said, I'd put the code in as part of the logon app compatibility
scripts, when I run it there the mountpoints2 values don't appear to be
being created until the session had initialised.
However, if I put the following script in, say, the all users\Startup
directory it all works and gets renamed as expected:
on error resume next
const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strClientDriveLetter = "N:"
Set oShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
Set
oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:S
tdRegProv")
strKeyPath =
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2"
oReg.EnumKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, arrSubKeys
nRet = oShell.Run ("cmd /c subst " & strClientDriveLetter & " /d",0,TRUE)
nRet = oShell.Run ("cmd /c subst " & strClientDriveLetter & "
\\client\c$\citrixusbstore",0,TRUE)
oReg.EnumKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, arrnewSubKeys
lFound = false
for each cNewsubkey In arrNewSubKeys
if left(cNewsubkey,1) = "{" Then
lFound = false
for each cOldsubkey in ArrSubkeys
if cNewSubKey = cOldSubKey then
lFound = true
end if
next
if not(lFound) then
exit for
end if
end if
Next
if not lfound then
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\" & strKeyPath & "\" & cNewSubKey &
"\_LabelFromReg","My USB Store","REG_SZ"
end if
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tom Howarth
Sent: 10 December 2007 19:52
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Naming a subst'd drive
Andrew why do you want to do this?
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Joe Shonk
Sent: 10 December 2007 17:43
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Naming a subst'd drive
Net use m: \\client\c$\clientdir <file:///\\client\c$\clientdir> doesn't
work for you?
Joe
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Wood
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:25 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Naming a subst'd drive
Hi,
I've got a W2k3 SP2 server and I want to create a subst mapping to a client
drive
So - net use M: <file:///\\client\c$> \\client\c$
All, fine and dandy
Now I want to subst a drive to a directory on c:
Subst N: m:\clientdir
Hurrah - N: is subst'd
*But* in explorer it appears as
I can manually rename the drive - which is fine for the session - but as the
subst isn't persistent it gets lost each time.
I've looked at manipulating the MountPoints2 reg key - but it's a different
key everytime, and only appears as a key once you do a rename.
I've looked at using shell.application.namespace method, but it only appears
to work for network drives.
L
Any ideas how to rename the drive so that instead of being 'disconnected' it
comes up as "user friendly drive name"?
Tia.
Andrew
Gilwood CS Ltd
Registered Office : 197 Leechmere Road, Sunderland, UK, SR2 9DL. No.
6099397 England
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