Portal Drive - Administration

Hi,
we want to do some mapping of WebDAV Folders with the Portal Drive. In our environment the user should not do that by himself. The drives has to be mapped in the login scripts.
My problem is to hide the PortalDrive in the taskbar. The User can open the application and change settings and so on. Is there a possibility to hide the application or disable the settings in the portal drive application? And if yes, how to?
Thanks and bye
Florian

Hi Tobias,
thank you for the answer.
I tried that, but the microsoft redirecting service (used by the "net use" command) with windows xp (operation system of our clients) has some restrictions:
For example it can only use port 80 as far as i know, so we have to install a port forwarding tool like stunnel. I think this solution is not really practicable. The autentication mechanism is restricted, too.
Best regards
Florian

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I'm already using:
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Hi
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[How to distribute KM Content using ICE Protocol|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/802c1739-d270-2910-ad9f-f369de07c1bf]
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Message was edited by: Phil Gleadhill
Update May 29th. I received the following information from SAP Germany Product Management for those interested...
Ad 1. As Portal Drive basically is an enhanced WebDAV client and the official WebDAV protocol (www.webdav.org) doesn't support the exchange of metadata schema information there's currently no way for the client to detect that some properties are mandatory or even enforce the entry. That's why our member of the WebDAV working group already posted an RFC for the WebDAV protocol addressing this issue.
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Hi ,
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There is a tool called Portal Drive which can be downloaded from SAP ServiceMarketPlace do install that tol in end user PC and restart the PC once after that you can have Repository folders as a mapped Drive into your local PC.
Use simple widows method Ctrl C , Ctrl V
Windows StartMenu-->Programs>SAP Front End>Portal Drive-->Portal Drive Client
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>New
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