Re: Unblocking Programs on Drive Mappings

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:59:50 -0400

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"Gary" <Gary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:17959A1B-E10D-4865-9AF2-627C3E67C24B@microsoft.com...
> As an example, I have a drive mapping to the M: drive to run a program, let's 
> call it pinball.  When I try and run pinball on the M: drive which is on a 
> remote server running windows 2000 server, I get a prompt that says:
> 
> Open File - Security Warning
> 
> the publisher could not be verified.  Are you sure you want to run this 
> software
> 
> etc..
> 
> From what I have read, it normally gives you the option of unblocking this 
> file, but since it is on a remote computer, it doesn't give you the option to 
> do this from what I gather.  Is there a way to prevent this particular file 
> from coming up with this error in the future for only this file or do I have 
> to turn it off for all files?  I would have to tell windows somehow to NOT 
> give me a security warning for the file M:\pinball.exe .  How can I do this?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Gary Belanger
> 
> 
>

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