Hide drive policy not effective

[Bas van Rooij]

With the Microsoft policies NoDrives and NoViewOnDrives it is possible to hide a certain drive ad prevent access to it when it is browsed. FileZilla doesn't follow these policies. (tested with 3.1.3.1)

NoDrives: ​http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/93573.mspx?mfr=true

NoViewOnDrive: ​http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/93573.mspx?mfr=true

C:\ drive is hidden for the user and when filezilla is launched you won't see the drive on the local site overview. But when you type C:\ in the local site addres bar the c:\ drive is browsable.

[Tim Kosse]

These are just voluntary policies. Use mandatory access control to prevent access to C:\ altogether. (Windows must not be installed on C:\ in that case)

[Bas van Rooij]

These are mandatory policies that can be applied with Active Directory group policies. There is no other way to hide the drives and prevent access.

[Tim Kosse]

To quote the very article you linked:

This entry does not prevent users from using programs to access local and network drives.

[Bas van Rooij]

This is because these programs doesn't respect the hide drive policies.

​http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372139(VS.85).aspx

If you don't see this as a bug then make a feature request of it ;)

Thx!