UEM Drive mapping - mapping a drive to a folder inside a share

[chandlarp]

I'm using UEM 9.7 and am just building my environment in a test lab.  I am trying to put all User based settings in UEM as per the VMWare recommendation.

We use DFS / DFSR extensively for file shares both for site awareness and fault tolerance.

I have a single namespace for user home drives. In native GPP I can have a drive mapping to \\server\share\%Logonuser%  .

I have tried repeatedly in UEM to map a drive but it only seems to accept \\server\share . If I put anything past that, even a hard folder path, the mapping does not succeed.

Is this something that is not available in UEM?

If I have to go back to GPP for drive maps do I have to worry about execution timing as I intend to use the users home drive for UEM folder redirection ?

Thanks.

Chandlar

[cbaptiste · Accepted solution]

Try \\server\share\%username% instead \\server\share\%Logonuser% and let me know the result.

[chandlarp]

Yeah .. I thought of that too.  It doesn't work.  Even if I hard code the folder to a single test user folder the UEM drive map does not succeed.

Thanks

Chandlar

[cbaptiste]

What does the log says? Enable debugging and see why it is not successful.

[DEMdev]

Hi Chandlar,

In addition to cbaptiste's notes on using %USERNAME% and checking the log – I just tried the following, and that works:

[chandlarp]

So a couple of things  ....

I checked the logs and sure enough I was getting an "access denied" to \\server\share\myfolder in the  UEM log.

My oversight ... I had full rights to the target shared folder but did not have any access to the DFS namespace.

So I then changed the UEM drive mapping to \\server\share\%LogonUser% and UEM give a Network path not found error.

I then changed it to \\server\share\%Username% and it worked fine .

Thanks

Chandlar

[cbaptiste]

Great. Glad you got it working.