Group Policy: Disable run command without disabling UNC paths

[Treemonkeys]

I have a group policy setup for our terminal server users, one of the applications they use saves files to the UNC path "\\192.168.2.8\xx" for example. The group policy is causing an error and preventing the use of UNC paths for the application, it gives them the "Access to resource has been disallowed" error when the app tries to save data to the path.

So to get around this, all I have to do is disable the "Remove run menu from start menu" option in group policy. After disabling this setting, the application works fine and can access the UNC path as needed, but of course "Run" option now shows up on the end user's start menu as well, which I do not want.

Does anyone know if it is possible to keep "Run" off of the start menu, while still allowing applications access to UNC paths? Or if not, does anyone know any good ideas to work around this?

This is all on Server 2003.

[sc302 Veteran]

silly question cant you have said application save to a drive letter, and can't you have a if statement stating that it needs to map to x drive belonging to \\servername\share name

kind of like this

if ingroup ("specialapplication")

map x: "\\servername\sharename"

endif

swap x for your drive letter, swap special application to whatever group the users belong to that have access to this application, swap servername with the server or ip address, swap sharename with the share name.

[Treemonkeys]

You know I didn't even think about that, it will be a slight pain in the ass due to the number of changes I will have to make, but it should work.