How to hide the location of the user home folder

Question

Hi everyone, I created a new FS in my domain and I'm trying to find a way to hide the fs location, for example my location is: \xxxx-fs\home_folder$.
And I want it to show up just as adirb.
Thanks

Answer 1

I don't understand why you'd ever do that but from my understanding you can do it using GPO. You should be mapping the drive using GPO already. Within the drive mapping dialog is the Label as field. If you set this and refresh GPO then Windows should hide the UNC path. But I've never tried this personally so I don't know if it works correctly on all machines.

If you aren't using GPO then I don't know how to do it.

Answer 2

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having issues related to hide the location of the user home folder.

1. Please check GPO settings -> . Navigate to User Configuration -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -> Drive Mappings
   2. Right Click Drive Mappings, Select New – > Mapped Drive
2. Configure Drive Mapping Properties
3. In location put the path to the share/folder you want to map a drive to.
   Select a drive letter
   Choose Update for action
   Label as: Type Name of the Shared folder.

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Answer 3

If you want to hide the path of the real homefolder drive (the one configured within the AD account), you can add a user GPO to give it a label:

User GPO / preferences / registry

Action : update
HKEY_CURRENT_USER

SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2##server#share$#%username%
Value : _LabelFromReg
REG__SZ

put the label you want to see, like "HOME"