SYS255 Lab 6 - Robertsegee/TechJournals GitHub Wiki
10/19/20 Lab 6 Server Core & Remote Administrator Tools: In this lab, we configured a new VM which was a server with our existing VMs. Generally, I was able to cruise through this lab with relative ease however, there were some mistakes that I had to overcome along the way. One of these mistakes was accessing the new share from other VMs and domain users. Setting it up was no trouble however when I went to access it from the account that it was designated for, I could not find the share anywhere in my network drive. I overcame this problem by instead of looking for the folder/computer icon in the network drive, I instead typed the path into the search and was then able to access it. So while the folder is technically in the drive, the icon does not appear. I will further research this problem to see how I can get the icon to appear. Another aspect of this lab that I did was mapping a drive to the shared folder with a group policy. The steps that I took to complete this is as follows:
- Find account location/group
- Get path to a shared folder
- Create GPO and link the group
- Configure permissions
- GPO content and settings
The first 3 steps are self-explanatory, when I was configuring the permissions for some reason they would not apply to Alice despite the account being in the group. I realized the reason that I was not able to see the policy applied was that I didn't add domain computers to the permissions. While domain computers do have the policy when they use gpresult /R, they do not have access to the drive because I set the permissions to not apply to them and only people in the group. After that, I began to set up the content by going to the policy's settings (right click and go to edit) -> User configuration -> preferences -> windows settings -> drive maps. Then I added a new mapped drive. The action for the drive is set to create, the location was \fs01-robert\sales, the label is sales, and the drive letter set to s. Then I tested the policy by logging into wks02 as Alice and opening powershell, first doing gpupdate, then doing gpresult /r to see if the policy was applied. Once I confirmed the policy was applied I opened file explorer and found the S drive in network locations, and then found the contents of the sales folder in the S drive which confirmed that everything was running perfectly.