Citrix Clients cannot map to DFS Share

[ghosking]

Hi,

We are using a Citrix Metaframe XP farm and have noticed that users logging in to Citrix are not picking up any DFS shares. Other non DFS shares are fine, but the main DFS share indicates it is mapping successfully in the login script, but no drive appears. Non Citrix users have no issues.

We are using an NT 4 based domain and DFS is standalone. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rayzze]

Difficult to troubleshoot without more information but here we go anyway... Local server drive letters and local client drive letters will alway take precedence over mapped drives. These are usually C:, D:, M:, N:, and O: so if your DFS is attempting to use one of these letters you will have to make adjustments, like not mapping the clients local drives etc... If this is not the issue, try logging on to the console and see if the drive maps, let us know what happens.

 

[ghosking]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, we have now noticed that the drive is not mapping due to the letter, not DFS. We were using drive B, it maps ok using P.

It must be to do with Citrix client remapping? How can we tell Citrix not to map back the B drive - any ideas

Thanks again

Giles

 

[rayzze]

You can tell the server itself to stop mapping all of the client drives in the citrix connection configuration window (its the little hammer icon on the xp taskbar) or in module.ini you can list b in the disabled drives line on each and every client.

Hope that helps,