Sync files from a RDP "local drive"

Question

I have users who remotely log into a terminal server over the Internet.

They need the ability to synchronize their local drive (mapped through RDP settings) with their "user" drive on the terminal server. I think the screenshot below will best explain this requirement.

Can someone please make a recommendation on how this sync could be best achieved?

Many thanks!

Solution

Windows 7 has a built-in utility called Sync Center. Essentially what the user would need to do is right-click on the network folder or drive that they want to keep synced, and click "Always available offline" - then you can go into Sync Center and manage the syncing.

Comments

[Joshua]

Not sure about the drive. Seems like there should be an option related to keeping the drive available "offline". As an alternative, you could create a BAT script with Robocopy sync commands that automatically runs at certain times (i.e. on bootup, shutdown, etc.)

[Akhil Matcha]

The problem is that the drive mapped through RDP always has a different path name e.g. "H on Alex-PC", "H on Tim-PC". If RDP had a consistent name for the drives a script would make it easy.

[Scott Chamberlain]

@Ash If you go by UNC path instead if the descriptive name there is a standard naming scheme. It is always \\tsclient\DriveLetter\ , so both of your previous examples would translate to \\tsclient\H\

[Paul]

I know this was an old post, but someone else might blunder upon this post while looking up how to do this.

[Xen2050]

So how do you do it? Link-only answers are frowned upon (probably because they're useless when (not if) the link goes down)