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scanning a mapped drive from a MS2012 R2 server

bob burt

I have a MS 2012 R2 server with Sophos installed.  I want to create a new scan and scan a mapped drive.  When I go to select what drives, it does not show any mapped drives. When I try this from a Win7 box, I see the mapped drives.  I have even seen mapped drives on one other 2012 server.

 

I am not sure what is blocking the ability to choose a mapped drive for scanning.



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  • 0 in reply to jak

    My reason for running to run a scan on a mapped drive is because the data at the mapped drive location is on a SMB Share.  SMB Shares are not associated with an specific file server, so I can not get any scan on these files unless I run a scheduled scan on a mapped drive.

     

    We are moving critical data to a San type device that will allow a module to be added that will allow Sophos to scan on demand these smb type shares, but I still need to run nightly scans on these files.

     

    My plan is to have a server that is logged in with mapped drives so the scans can run.

     

    Make sense?

     

  • 0 in reply to bob burt

    Hello bob burt,

    a scheduled scan
    is more an after-the-fact cleanup of items that an On-Access scan has missed (or that aren't scanned on access for whatever reason). Why do you think the nightly scan is necessary?

    As for the scheduled scan: Are the (non-mapped) shares available in the Set up/Edit scan window under the Network node? Whether it will work or not if they are I can't say as "it depends".

    Christian

  • 0 in reply to QC

    At this time, we do not have a module to will do on-access scans.  So we want to run scheduled scans.  What I don't understand is why can I see mapped drives on one MS 2012 system but can not on the other.

     

    Can we focus on why mapped drives do not show up and not so much as to why I want to do it.  I was told by Sophos support that scanning of mapped drives was a feature.  I can do it on one box, but can not on another.  The question is why????

     

  • 0 in reply to bob burt

    Hello bob burt,

    focus on why mapped drives do not show up
    sorry, no lecturing or academic discussion intended. As to the difference, according to the article Jak has linked and another similar one it is related to UAC (or perhaps some GPO/registry setting). If you map the drive in an elevated prompt you should see it in the Scans GUI (BTW: does it display the shares?) - haven't tested whether it works as expected though.

    Christian

  • 0 in reply to QC

    No problem, ex college professor myself.  Yes, turning UAC off worked.  I did have to go into the registry and disable UAC to actually get it to work, moving the UAC slide bar to Never is not enough.

     

    Thanks for the assistance.

     

    Change "EnableLUA" from 1 to 0 in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system".

     

     

     

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