I have seen local security polices mess with domain gpo's
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From: Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]>
Date: 8/1/16 2:40 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] mapped drive madness
Could it possibly be a mixup of mapping the drives from normal and/or elevated
permissioned windows?
As crazy as it sounds, I've seen weird behavior like that when there is a mixed
consistency of mappings on x64 systems. AFAICT, its usually born of mapping
drives from the command prompt. To clear it, I have to go through and remove
the mappings from both normal and elevated CMD windows.
I have not been able to intentionally replicate the issue consistently, but
I've encountered it enough times for it to be in my thought process.
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Espi
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m trying to solve a weird issue on one laptop for a client. There are
several drives mapped using GPO on a 2008r2 domain. As expected, most laptops
show a red x over mapped drives when off the company network. They enable VPN
and then
have access.
I have one system (win7 64 bit) that when the user logs in away from corporate
network, the mapped drives do not appear. I tried running gpupdate /force
after enabling VPN without success ...but understand that probably wouldn’t
work anyway
because drive maps in GPO typically only happen at logon.
I tried creating a bat file to net use the drive mappings so that the user
could run this after turning on the vpn. This fails with an already in use
error. Because of the error, I went to look at the screen where you manually
map a drive.
And the error is correct. All of the drive letters we use show as mapped to
the correct UNC path. But the mapped drives do not show up in explorer and
explorer doesn’t recognize the drive letters as valid location if you enter the
drive letter in the address
bar.
Anyone have any insight as to why this laptop hates me?
Thanks.
Bill
