Removable drives conflicting with logon scripts drive mappings

[Robin]

Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
devices?

[John O]

> To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
> reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
> devices?

What we did was start the network shared drives at Q. That leaves lots of
room for partitions, multiple CDs, and flash card readers with four ports...
Not the answer you're looking for, unfortunately. <g>

-John O

[Bob I]

When left to it's own devices Windows will map Network drives starting
with Z and working towards A. It will map Local drives A->Z. If you
follow that scheme, all is well. Map remotes into the lower letters and
you have to fix it when the inevitable happens.

Robin wrote:

> Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
> again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
> say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
> drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
> reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
> devices?

[Uwe Sieber]

Robin wrote:
> Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
> again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
> say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
> drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
> reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
> devices?

As the others wrote the best way is to use high letters
for network shares. If this is no option, you could let
reassign the USB drive's letters by my USB drive letter
manager:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html



Greetings from Germany

Uwe

[Robin]

We have a legacy situation whereby network mappings use letter around G. It
would be too much work to adjust these corporation wide just to accomodate
removable drives. I want a way to tell XP to start with one letter and work
down or to only use a certain range of letters for removable storage.

"Bob I" wrote:

> When left to it's own devices Windows will map Network drives starting
> with Z and working towards A. It will map Local drives A->Z. If you
> follow that scheme, all is well. Map remotes into the lower letters and
> you have to fix it when the inevitable happens.
>
> Robin wrote:
>
> > Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
> > again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
> > say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
> > drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
> > reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
> > devices?
>
>

[Robin]

My 4000 users have no admin rights and they never will have, but
increasinglythey have these USB sticks. I need a way to either; set a drive
letter range in the registry or push the already assigned letter out the way
when the logon script maps to the share. I'm not bothered if they have to
reinsert the stick (which also reassigns the letters).

"Uwe Sieber" wrote:

>
> Robin wrote:
> > Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
> > again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
> > say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
> > drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
> > reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
> > devices?
>
> As the others wrote the best way is to use high letters
> for network shares. If this is no option, you could let
> reassign the USB drive's letters by my USB drive letter
> manager:
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>
>
>
> Greetings from Germany
>
> Uwe
>
>
>

[Uwe Sieber]

I've developed USBDLM as Win32 service, so the user needs
no admin rights. Admin rights are required for installation
only and this can easily be done remote without any interaction
of the users.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe



Robin wrote:
> My 4000 users have no admin rights and they never will have, but
> increasinglythey have these USB sticks. I need a way to either; set a drive
> letter range in the registry or push the already assigned letter out the way
> when the logon script maps to the share. I'm not bothered if they have to
> reinsert the stick (which also reassigns the letters).
>
> "Uwe Sieber" wrote:
>
>>
>> Robin wrote:
>> > Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
>> > again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
>> > say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
>> > drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
>> > reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
>> > devices?
>>
>> As the others wrote the best way is to use high letters
>> for network shares. If this is no option, you could let
>> reassign the USB drive's letters by my USB drive letter
>> manager:
>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings from Germany
>>
>> Uwe
>>
>>
>>

[GKelley]

Robin,

I am too having the same problem and I am looking for the same solution.
Thus far I have been unsuccessful in finding a solution that fits my needs.
If you find a solution please share.

-Garrett

"Robin" wrote:

> Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
> again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
> say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
> drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts is there anyway to
> reserve a pool of drive letters within XP Pro for local removable storage
> devices?