logical drive not seen by users

I created a logical drive while logged in under my admin account on my Windows 2000 server.

This drive can't be seen by general users. I need it mapped as the root drive for a TCS application.

 

What kind of client OS have the clients?
How they suppose to see the drive?Share?
That drive is on the server?
The file system of the drive is NTFS or FAT32?

 

It's not good practace to share an entire drive letter.
Place a folder on the drive and share the folder.
Map the clients to that folder with the drive letter of your choice.
It looks just like a drive to them.

As a matter of fact I dont think you can share out a complete drive on server because it's shared by default as \\driveletter$

 

You're right it is not a good pratice to share the root drive but the drive already have one share that is Admin share by default. You CAN create the shares you want without limit.

 

NTFS

 

I probably didn't describe my set-up well. I have an application running in TCS mode on the server. This application needs a root drive (W) that has been set in WINNT/application compatability scripts/rootdrv2.cmd as W.

The problem is the root drive mapping only works (W created) for people with admin permissions. General users do not get the W drive mapped.

 

Did you mean when you start a terminal session as a normal users you can't see the drive?
Did you try select the option "map drives?" on the TS client?
I am understand your question or not?

 

Yes, normal users can not see the W drive when connecting to the terminal session through remote desktop.

I just tried to enable drive mapping on the TS client. This check-box is marked and I can't change it!

Why? This machine is part of my companies domain. Is the domain over-riding my ability to have users map a drive on the the server

I have admin privileges and can see the drive.

 

You want to display the local drive from TS server in the session of the users?
Do you have any kind of GPO denying?
You're running under application mode right? YES YOU ARE!

Win2k Terminal Services' version of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) does not support local drive mapping, and RDP 5.2 (which comes with Win2l3) does.

You have to share the drive on the client, and then connect to it
from within the TS session with something like
"net use X: \\clientpc\shared_drive "