User's drives on the network

Not sure if this would be more appropriate in the AD area or here, but here
goes....We have an AD network running on Win2k3, with mostly XP client
machines, and a couple Vista machines. Each client machine of course has the
default admin share of the C drive. When users plug in USB hard drives or
usb key drives they are given a new letter on the client machine, of
course...but, even the domain admin does not have the ability to see those
drives - they don't have a default share associated with them. Is there a
way to make it so that those drives do get a default admin share (we would
like this to be seemless so the user doesn't have to do something every time
they plug in a drive)?

Thanks
Jon

Jon <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Not sure if this would be more appropriate in the AD area or here,
> but here goes....We have an AD network running on Win2k3, with mostly
> XP client machines, and a couple Vista machines. Each client machine
> of course has the default admin share of the C drive. When users plug
> in USB hard drives or usb key drives they are given a new letter on
> the client machine, of course...but, even the domain admin does not
> have the ability to see those drives - they don't have a default
> share associated with them. Is there a way to make it so that those
> drives do get a default admin share (we would like this to be
> seemless so the user doesn't have to do something every time they
> plug in a drive)?
> Thanks
> Jon

Yep, the external/removable drives won't be shared by default, and I don't
know that you can force them to be. You could try posting in a scripting
group to see if there's some way to automate that - I don't know of anything
offhand.