Total commander should see forwarded drives from RDP

[TMX]

It would be nice to see TC have the feature to recognize forwarded drives from a remote desktop session.

[ghisler(Author)]

Just create a button with the command
cd \\tsclient

I'm not aware of any function to find out that such drives are available, except for trying to access them as above (which can take a while if they are unavailable).

[TMX]

Well when i RDP into a machine with a few forwarded drives, i will see them in the machine i RDP in My Computer as network drives, but TC does not see them..



http://www3.telus.net/public/tmx1/drives.JPG

take a look there.. those network drives are seen by windows but not by TC..

thats what i wish i could see in TC, so i dont have to use the windows file manager[/img]

[TMX]

what i meant to say is... I wish TC would automatically detect forwarded drives when you RDP into a computer and display them in the top bar just like when plugging in a new USB stick.. USB sticks are detected as removable drives..

Would be nice if TC detected those remote drives and added them automatically

[ghisler(Author)]

when i RDP into a machine with a few forwarded drives, i will see them in the machine i RDP in My Computer as network drives, but TC does not see them..

Have you checked in Total Commander's "My Computer" folder too? You can reach it via Commands - Open desktop directory, or via cm_opendrives on a button.

[TMX]

Yeah will show the forwarded drives.. but it would be a bonus if they drive's were added automatically in the top drive bar like any other USB stick..

[PeaceMaker]

2TMX

Read this...

http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=12060&highlight=

[TMX]

Well after reading that, i still must question as to why does the Windows file manager able to recognize those forwarded drives (network shared drives) without any hassle but TC cant.

If i were to go by the explanation (being network shares) it still tells me Windows can see it without any problem and TC cant. When using the remote drives i can open any software on the computer and it will be able to see those remote drives automatically.

[StatusQuo]

Unfortunately not, because they are just network shares, not real drives.

2TMX / 2PeaceMaker

i can open any software on the computer and it will be able to see those remote drives automatically.

I'm not familiar with RDP, so just to be shure:
are there drive letters assigned to those "remote drives"?

A normal network connection to e.g. \\10.1.2.3\share can't be "seen" by TC,
but after you assign a drive letter like

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net.exe use R: \\10.1.2.3\share

it is (almost) immediately displayed in TC's drive button bar - and removed again after removing the drive letter (net.exe use R: /d).

The same applies for drive letters assigned/removed with subst.exe.

(TC 7.02a, Win2k SP4)

[TMX]

well.. if you look at the picture i posted you can see it does assign drive letters, but those drive letters are the exact same drive letters on the originating machine..
So for example i will have 2 C:\. One local to the machine i am RDPing into, and anoter C:\ thats from the remote machine..

http://www3.telus.net/public/tmx1/RDP%20Drives.JPG

[StatusQuo]

2TMX
According to your screenshot those remote drives are not assigned to any local drive letters
(which would be necessary to be detected by TC without a special plugin).

Maybe there's a chance using batch files to connect/disconnect, if you can see the RDP share name with

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net.exe view \\tsclient

If yes, then net.exe could be used to assign/release local drive letters for the remote drives...

If not, then I don't know a solution, sorry.