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aanastasio

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March 15th, 2013 16:00

Publish explorer as root

I have been trying to get explorer to publish as root with /root under the vWorkspace 7.6 Managed Applications but can't seem to find the correct parameters. 

Path:

c:\windows\explorer.exe

Arguments:

C:\Tools (I created this folder on root to test with)

Working Dir:

Has anyone been able to get /root to work for publishing purposes so a user can't explore a folder structure once lauched. 

Thanks

DELL-David Y

228 Posts

March 18th, 2013 09:00

Hello Anthony,

I have configured my application in the same way as yours but set the application argument to /root,c:\tools.

With this setting the application opens Windows Explorer as though the Tools folder was the root folder on the drive. This is how the root switch is intended to work. Using the /root switch does not prevent the user from then exploring the folder structure.

Here is a link to the Command-Line switches for Windows Explorer, there is no option to prevent the user from navigating other folders http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510

You could configure Additional Customizations from the vWorkspace Console to hide the C drive for the users. Again this does not prevent them accessing the folder but does hide the drive icon in Windows Explorer to make it less obvious.

Thanks

David

aanastasio

7 Posts

March 18th, 2013 12:00

Thank you for the information, this is what I needed. 

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