How to provide users with isolated drive letters in Windows 2008 R2 (Terminal Server)

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Published on 2011-11-24T21:14:57Z Indexed on 2012/06/10 22:42 UTC
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I need to be able to host several RDP sessions on a Terminal Server, where users of group A see a drive X: mapped to a given folder of the server and another group B see the same drive letter X: mapped to another folder. For instance :

User 1, Group A    X: --> C:\data\A
User 2, Group A    X: --> C:\data\A
User 3, Group B    X: --> C:\data\B
User 4, Group C    X: --> C:\data\C

Is this possible. If so, how do I configure the virtual drive mapping so that the user has nothing special to do; i.e. I want the letter X: to be available to Remote Apps launched by the user, or if the user logs in to the remote desktop.

Can I somehow use subst to get this to work? I would like to avoid, if possible, mounting drive letters on local shares (i.e. I don't like the idea of having to go through \\localhost\data-A to reach the user's data).

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