Feature: Display remote drive redirects on home page and sidebar

[Josh65-2201]

What the problem

When I'm using the Remote Desktop client or Hyper-V and set it to redirect a drive it will show up in the normal file explorer but not files.

Steps to reproduce

1. Connect to a computer with drive redirect enabled on the client
2. Open Files
3. See that there's no network drive reflecting drive redirect settings from client

Requirements

• Auto mount the tsclient network drive on RD connect
• Remove the mounted when RD client disconnects/location isn't available anymore

Files version

1.5.0.0

Windows version

10.0.19043.899

Relevant assets

debug.txt
debug_fulltrust.txt

[Josh65-2201]

Still an issue in 1.9.14. If I go to the "Network" section on the sidebar it will show up as a "tsclient" computer and can be access like any other drive, But it should show up in the drives section on the home page and under the network category when available.

[1011Tech]

Very much would like to see this as well. We work in numerous virtual environments daily and rely on quick access to redirected/host drives.

[merrickville]

Just came across this issue RDP'ing into Windows 11 running in a KVM.

Using
$ xfreerdp --lots-of-switches /drive:Home,/home/guest /drive:Root,/ 192.168.1.17:3389
with the file redirection switches /drive:Name,PATH .

Opening the stock File Manager in Windows 11 shows these re-directions are available.

Stock Windows 11 File Manager:

When I click in the left navigation pane (Network Drives / Network) the "tsclient" entry appears in the viewing pane.

When I double click on 'tsclient' entry, I get a pop-up error:

However, if I manually type in the URI to the file redirection address, it works. Certainly not a show stopper, just highlighting a default behaviour that doesn't work in the Files client.

\\tsclient\Root