Remote Desktop Connection Local Disk Drive Access

[Skittle]

When you create a Remote Desktop Connection to another machine you can click the options button and tick the
'Local Devices Disk Drives' option within the 'Local Resources' tab to make the client machine drives available in the remote session.

Trouble is I have not ben able to get this to work.
I am remote connecting from an XP pro to a Windows 2000 server but I don't see any extra drives in the remote session.

How should they be presented to me?


Dazed and confused
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[cyberspace]

I'm not exactly sure...but I do this on a daily basis, I never have that option checked but all the drives are visible and accessible on the remote machine.

'When all else fails.......read the manual'

 

[Skittle]

If you have a C drive on the remote machine and a C drive on the client machine, how are the two shown apart on the File Explorer?



Dazed and confused
(N+, MCAD .NET)

 

[cyberspace]

Well you are using the RDP client so its in an entirely different window...using RDP is the same as sitting in front of the remote machine.

If you go to "My Computer" during a remote desktop session, you see the details of the remote machine, not the local one. This remains the case until you end the session, or minimise the RDP window. The only thing that wont work is Ctrl+Alt+Del - that will start task manager on the local machine. You can of course counter that by clicking on the desktop toolbar in the remote session window and selecting Task Manager.

'When all else fails.......read the manual'

 

[smah]

With this option selected, you should see both local & remote drives in My Computer.

 

[Skittle]

Hmmmmm strange.

I don't see any additional drives.
I guess it mut be a Windows 2000 issue.

Dazed and confused
(N+, MCAD .NET)

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, Skittle

Strange alright; maybe you need to use the TS client from Win 2000 rather than the one from XP.

Possible workaround (works under XP):

Assuming you want to access your local C: drive when connected to the W2K machine, what happens if you:

- connect to the host W2K machine, open a command window
- net use Q: \\tsclient\c
(assuming drive Q: is not used on the host)

Then drive Q: on the host should be routed to your local C: drive.

Jock

 

[cyberspace]

Cant be a Win 2K issue...as I RDP to a Win 2k Server from my own PC...and i see all the server drives under "My Computer"

'When all else fails.......read the manual'

 

[Nortelinva]

Skittle

Perhap you can help me or any of you guys, The boss want me to get his laptop with wifi to be able to access our database at the office. Laptop would run the software and get the database from the w2k server. We have in the past just used remote administrator to use his desktop at the office but he had to get a laptop.

It seems that I could simply map the z:data drive folder through tcp/ip but i'm at at the end of my hairpulling to try to figuire it out. I had not seen remote desktop before

If that works I will let you know

 

[cdogg]

Cyberspace,
Skittle is trying to see the client's drives on the host PC. So with the Local Drives option enabled, all the drives of both the host and client should be mapped in My Computer under the category Other. The client's drives will show up as C on Computername, D on Computername, etc... (where Computername is the client's). This gives you the option to transfer files from the Host to Client, or vice versa.

It might have something to do with Win2K Server, but I haven't seen that before.

~cdogg
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[cdogg]

Nortelinva,
I suggest you start a new thread for assistance. If you want to reference this thread in the new one, that would be fine.

~cdogg
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