| During the File Storage section of the Design Phase, you should have documented how client drives will be configured. Client drive mapping is built into the standard MetaFrame XP device redirection facilities and the client drives appear as a network type (Client Network) in Network Neighborhood. The clients disk drives are displayed as shared folders with mapped drive letters. These drives can be used by Windows Explorer and other applications like any other network drive. By default, the drives on the client system are all automatically mapped. If the MetaFrame XP Servers drives were not remapped during installation of MetaFrame then the client drives will, by default, start with V$ and continue mapping all available client disk drives and CDROMS in ascending order. If they were remapped then the client drives will start with C$. The client drive letter is a configurable setting via the servers registry. (this is a per server setting, so if you choose to change the default drive letter then you will need to make the change on all your MetaFrame XP Servers) Remember if you configure MetaFrame XP to automatically auto-create drive then you will need to make sure enough drive letters are available. You can configure client drive mapping farm wide or with the use of a MetaFrame XP Policy you have the ability to configure drive mapping on a user / group basis.
With the release of MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 2, Citrix has given you the ability to assign auto-created client drive mappings on a user and or group basis. This is the mechanism that I recommend you use. By default automatic client drive mapping is enabled, so we will need to create a policy to disable it and add the appropriate user and group accounts. The following defines how to create a MetaFrame XP policy to disable the auto creation of the end users local drives. 1. Create a Global Group to disable client drive mapping. i.e., Disable Client Drive Mappings 2. Open the Management Console for MetaFrame XP, right click on Policies and click Create Policy. 3. Enter a name for the new policy. I recommend something like Disable Client Drive Mapping. Click OK when finish. 4. Right click on the newly created policy and click Properties. 5. Open the Client Devices folder open the Client Drives folder double click the Connect Client Drives policy Click to select the Rule Enabled radio button in the Connect Client Drives box Click to select the Do Not Connect Client Drives at Logon radio button and click OK to enable the policy. 
6. Right click on the policy created in the above steps and click Assign Users. 7. Select the users group you created in step 1 and click OK when finished. You have now successfully created a MetaFrame XP policy to disable client drive mapping. If you would ever find a need to disable auto creation of local client drives then all will need to do is add the desired users and or group to the Disable Client Drive Mapping global group.
You are able to disable automatic client drive mapping and through the Client Settings dialog box of a selected ICA connection in the Citrix Connection Configuration Utility. The Connection options control whether drives are auto-created. If this option is cleared, the devices are still available but must be mapped to drive letters manually. If during the File Storage section of the MetaFrame XP Farm Design you decided upon disabling automatic client drive creating, then you need to manually map client drives or use policies to enable them as discussed is the above sections. The following defines how to manually map client drives. 1. Click Start Click Programs Click Citrix Click MetaFrame XP Click Citrix Connection Configuration double-click on your connection type. 2. Click the Client Settings button 
3. Uncheck the Inherit user config button. 4. Uncheck the Connect Client drives at Logon button. 
5. Click OK. 6. You are now ready to manually map client drives. This can be done in a multitude of ways. You can configure all MetaFrame users at once through the %SystemRoot%\System32\UsrLogn2.Cmd file. You can configure drive mapping on a user / group basis through login scripts. You can instruct your users to manually map via the command line. Add the following line to each of the above ways to manually connect client drives: net use x: \\client\c$ Note: where x: is the drive letter you want to map and c$ in the client drive you want mapped. NET USE connects a computer to or disconnects a computer from a shared resource, or displays information about computer connections. The command also controls persistent net connections. | net use [devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume]] [password | *]] [/user:[domainname\]username] [[/delete] | [/persistent:{yes | no}]] | | net use devicename [/home[password | *]] [/delete:{yes | no}] | | net use [/persistent:{yes | no}] | | | | None | Used without parameters, net use retrieves a list of network connections. | | devicename | Assigns a name to connect to the resource or specifies the device to be disconnected. There are two kinds of device names: disk drives (D: through Z:) and printers (LPT1: through LPT3:). Type an asterisk instead of a specific device name to assign the next available device name. | | \\computername\sharename | Specifies the name of the server and the shared resource. If computername contains blank characters, enclose the entire computer name from the double backslash (\\) to the end of the computer name in quotation marks (" "). The computer name may be from 1 to 15 characters long. | | \volume | Specifies a NetWare volume on the server. You must have Client Service for NetWare (Windows 2000 Professional) or Gateway Service for NetWare (Windows 2000 Server) installed and running to connect to NetWare servers, | | Password | Specifies the password needed to access the shared resource. | | * | Produces a prompt for the password. The password is not displayed when you type it at the password prompt. | | /user | Specifies a different user name with which the connection is made. | | Domainname | Specifies another domain. For example, net use d:\\server\share user: admin\dbrown connects the user identifier dbrown as if the connection were made from the admin domain. If domainname is omitted, the current logged on domain is used. | | Username | Specifies the user name with which to logon. | | /delete | Cancels the specified network connection. If the user specifies the connection with an asterisk, all network connections are canceled. | | /home | Connects a user to the home directory. | | /persistent | Controls the use of persistent network connections. The default is the setting used last. Deviceless connections are not persistent. | | Yes | Saves all connections as they are made, and restores them at next logon. | | No | Does not save the connection being made or subsequent connections. Existing connections are restored at the next logon. Use the /delete switch to remove persistent connections. |
If during the File Storage section of the Design Phase, you decided to have MetaFrame XP auto-create drives and you decided upon a starting drive letter other than the default (V:), you will need to configure the registry on every MetaFrame XP server with the default drive letter to be used. The following procedures will configure auto drive mapping to default to a specific drive letter: 1. Click Start click Run type: REGEDIT click OK. 2. Broswe to the following Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix Click Edit Click New Click String Value. 
3. A new String Value to is created, type InitialClientDrive in the String Value Name field. 
4. In the String field, type Z: (Z: being the drive letter you want to start with) 
5. Click OK.
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