Note that this does 'permanently' use 1 rdp session until you decide to close it. This video should show you how to implement this 2 user setup on your server to hold an rdp session open. This will keep the user1's gui alive in the cloud without having to remain logged in to rdp locally. Remember, you can allow only certain folders to be synced on specific devices (you don't have to sync the entire dropbox, just the folders you need)Ģ) If you are allowed to setup more than one user on the remote server, have a 2nd user and then have user2 session connect rdp session to user1. Īnd yes, the mapping does seem to disallow access to the rest of the drive, although I wouldn't bet my life that it doesn't have chroot-like 'vulnerabilities' (assuming it is supposed to be secure in the first place).ġ) Install dropbox or equivalent cloud storage product and sync needed files that way between computers.

There are actually also other ways to do the mapping, see. Keep in mind that the subst mappings are not persistent across reboots, of course, so this is mostly convenient for a one-time session of file transfer.

Type mstsc (which launches Remote Desktop).

So I recommend to run everything from a single command prompt: Note that it's fairly easily to have problems with this method due to subst performing the mapping only for the user under which it is run. You can very easily share a single folder by using subst to map it to a drive letter, and then selecting that drive in remote desktop.

Eug wrote what I thing is an extremely useful comment that seems to have overlooked by everyone:

Download rdc manager