Remapping Server Drive Letters

Remapping Server Drive Letters

When a user launches an Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) session, the MPS server tries to map the client's disk drives on the server so that the user can use them as he or she would when working on a local workstation. If the server tries to map drive C:\, for example, but notices that this drive letter is being used on the server, it is forced to use another letter, which may confuse the user. So the user's local drive C:\ may be drive M:\ on the server.

To avoid this confusion and to offer users drive letters that correspond to the their own, you can remap the server's drive letters in advance, thereby freeing up the necessary drive letters needed to avoid user confusion. So, on a server that has drive letters remapped, when a user logs in, the MPS server maps his or her local drive C:\ to a drive letter on the server C:\.

To remap a server drive, locate the utility named DriveRemap.exe in the root of the MPS 3.0 CD-ROM. Double-click this file, and a window shows up, as shown in Figure 5.1, allowing you to remap the drive as you like. All you have to do is choose the drive letter for the first drive; the others will be incremented. In other words, if you have C:\, D:\, and E:\ on the server, when you run the DriveRemap.exe utility, all you have to do is select what C:\ will be remapped to and the others will be incremented. So, if you select C:\ to be remapped to M:\, then D:\ becomes N:\, and E:\ becomes O:\ automatically.

Figure 5.1. The Citrix Drive Remapping utility.

Note

It is very important to keep in mind that Server Drive remappings are permanent. Even if you uninstall MPS from the server, the drive remaps will still be there and will not be returned to their original state.

Alert

Citrix strongly recommends that if you decide to remap server drive letters, you do so prior to the installation of any applications, including MPS 3.0, on the server. Failure to do so will render the server unstable.