Local Drive not available????

[57chevy]

Hi Everyone,
I'm in a bit of a mess. I've "inherited" a LAN domain with all the workstations running Win2K. My problem is that as Administrator, I can log on to the workstation and see the C:/ drive on that workstation. But if one of the users logs on to the workstation, he can not see the C:/ drive. How do I change this so the user can save to his local hard drive C:/?? Thanks for your help.

 

[ashpp]

There will be a group policy somewhere with "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" enabled. (think its in Computer -> Security not sure haven't got a server close)

Ash.

 

[danomac]

Yup its in Group Policy,

User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Explorer

under Hide these specified drives in My Computer.

It's probably set to hide C:.

Daniel.

 

[57chevy]

Ashley, I checked again for "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" and as I remembered under Group Policy this attribute is "Not Configured". Everywhere I find "Hide these specified drives in My Computer", it's setting is "Not Configured". Can you think of any other way that this local drive might be hidden? Thanks for answering.

 

[ptrigueira]

You could try to check permissions on that drive. If users have network drives mapped in the computers it may be a protection so that users can't change anything on the hd.

 

[ashpp]

It could be in the local security of the client machines but unlikely. Maybe it was also in a previous GPO that was once removed.
Either way its worth setting the hide options to "Do not restrict drives" and testing again.

Ash.

 

[57chevy]

Thanks everyone for your assistance. Ashley, after reading your second reply, I realized that the former administrator might have set the policy at a different level. He had it set under "users". Problem solved. Thanks again. And have a great day.