Network Shared Files/UNC

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Mark

Good Afternoon,

I was just wondering if anyone knew why a user of ours
gets "access to the resource" + \\servername + "has been
disallowed." when a user tries to put \\servername in the
address bar of Internet Explorer 6.0. I know that it is a
Group Policy setting and not just permissions to the
server. If you could tell me which one it is, I'd
appreciate it very much. Thanks. Also, we have had
issues regarding our network security. Below is our
Deployment:

1. One Domain
2. One Domain Controller hosting the one domain
deployment -- no backup DCs
3. Created a OU named DemoUsers
4. Placed the Demo User within that OU
5. Applied GPO to the OU -- User Section only
6. GPO settings are not inherited from the domain GPO
7. GPO settings are using Very Strict Restrictions

With this deployment, even though the user is prevented
from navigating to the Network through the Network
Neighborhood and Windows Explorer, the user is still able
to navigate within our network and accessing the Shared
folders of our servers by just running Notepad and going
to File | Save and entering in \\servername. Is there a
way for me to prevent this access using GPOs or is there
another way of tightening security so that the Servers are
hidden from this user. I can just apply security
permissions on the shared folders on the servers but I
would like access to the shared folders restricted not
user explicit. For example, if a user on that server were
to share a folder that was important that contained
his/her personal information in there and did not set
security permissions to exclude certain users, then the
demo user can in fact delete that folder or open it. If
anyone can help, it would save me a lot of trouble and
hopefully keep my sanity in check.

Mark
 
Mark said:
Good Afternoon,

I was just wondering if anyone knew why a user of ours
gets "access to the resource" + \\servername + "has been
disallowed." when a user tries to put \\servername in the
address bar of Internet Explorer 6.0. I know that it is a
Group Policy setting and not just permissions to the
server. If you could tell me which one it is, I'd
appreciate it very much.
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Have a look at User Config\Admin Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar\Remove Run
from Start Menu.

It seems strange to me that this setting would stop the entering of UNC paths
in IE and Explorer, but it does.......
 
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