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I have users who remotely log into a terminal server over the Internet.
They need the ability to synchronize their local drive (mapped through RDP settings) with their "user" drive on the terminal server. I think the screenshot below will best explain this requirement.
Can someone please make a recommendation on how this sync could be best achieved?
Many thanks!
Ash
Posted 2012-02-28T00:11:02.930
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Windows 7 has a built-in utility called Sync Center. Essentially what the user would need to do is right-click on the network folder or drive that they want to keep synced, and click "Always available offline" - then you can go into Sync Center and manage the syncing.
Joshua
Posted 2012-02-28T00:11:02.930
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I did not want to use Sync Center, as I did not want to "sync" my files. I'm a developer, and the files I needed from the local machine are source files. So I found this blog entry (http://blog.ryankempt.com/2012/09/windows-library-add-non-indexed-location.html), and implemented the details of option #4, and now I have direct access to my local files through my remote desktop connection. Remember in the RDC setup options to make the local drive available to the RDC session.
Paul
Posted 2012-02-28T00:11:02.930
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I know this was an old post, but someone else might blunder upon this post while looking up how to do this. – Paul – 2015-12-18T22:19:11.020
So how do you do it? Link-only answers are frowned upon (probably because they're useless when (not if) the link goes down) – Xen2050 – 2015-12-18T22:46:04.533
Can Sync Center sync two separate hard drives (as shown in my screenshot) while logged in to a Windows Server 2008 terminal server? Right-clicking on a drive didn't show "Always available offline". – Ash – 2012-02-29T08:50:44.657
Not sure about the drive. Seems like there should be an option related to keeping the drive available "offline". As an alternative, you could create a BAT script with Robocopy sync commands that automatically runs at certain times (i.e. on bootup, shutdown, etc.) – Joshua – 2012-02-29T16:05:48.753
The problem is that the drive mapped through RDP always has a different path name e.g. "H on Alex-PC", "H on Tim-PC". If RDP had a consistent name for the drives a script would make it easy. – Ash – 2012-03-01T09:02:35.643
@Ash If you go by UNC path instead if the descriptive name there is a standard naming scheme. It is always
\\tsclient\DriveLetter\, so both of your previous examples would translate to\\tsclient\H\– Scott Chamberlain – 2014-03-13T03:58:49.357