[THIN] Re: To Remap or not to remap?

  • From: "Stansel, Paul" <Paul.Stansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:37:08 -0500

My advice is if you don't NEED to do it, don't do it.  And other than user
convenience, there is seldom a need to do it.

-Paul

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> From:         Lonnie Truskowski[SMTP:ltruskowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Reply To:     thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent:         Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:32 AM
> To:   'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:      [THIN] Re: To Remap or not to remap?
> 
> 
> I have several programs that are poorly written and require that they are
> installed on the C drive. My original MF 1.8 server was setup by a
> consultant with remapped the drives. So I was stuck with applications that
> users needed and we could not run. When I did our migration to MFXP I
> decided not to remap the drives.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Steve Rance [SMTP:Steve.Rance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:       Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:15 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:    [THIN] To Remap or not to remap?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I had decided that when I rebuilt our Citrix server to remap the server
> =
> > drive letters to M: and N: so that when fat clients login their local =
> > drives are mapped to C: and D:.  At the moment they map to V: W: which =
> > does confuse the users (not hard to do).
> > 
> > I have been doing alot of research and reading about setting up Citrix =
> > and for the second time have noted that the remapping of server drives =
> > is "not recommended".  In neither place does it say why is it not =
> > recommended.
> > 
> > So my question to you is, why is it not recommended?
> > 
> > Steve
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