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I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that has a drive in it called X: that I would like to use as a drive that everyone can access. However, I can't seem to get it to appear on anyone's computer.

I can access it when I am signed in as the domain administrator at \servername\x$ but when I am signed in as a non-administrator I cannot access it. I have tried to set it to map in group policy but no luck, nor does drive-sharing do anything.

How do I get this drive to appear on all user's computers, so everyone can use it?

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I think the answer is actually in

Windows Server 2008 R2 mapped shares do not show up in command line

which was asking about why a mapped drive was not available in an elevated command prompt. The answer pointed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms685143(v=vs.85).aspx and quotes it as follows:

Drive letters are not global to the system. Each logon session receives its own set of drive letters from A to Z. Therefore, redirected drives cannot be shared between processes running under different user accounts. Moreover, a service (or any process running within its own logon session) cannot access the drive letters that were established within a different logon session.

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