Accessing local drives in Matlab from command line when using Citric receiver

Question

I am using Matlab 2018a within the Citrix receiver. That means, I run the Citrix receiver and it runs Matlab on a server. From this Matlab instance, I can access my local drive, in fact if I click "open" then the window below appears, and I can open any file I want on my local pc. But what if I want to access my local files from command line in my Matlab command window or in a Matlab scripts? I tried:

dos('cd \\ALBERTO-PC\C:')

I get:

'\\ALBERTO-PC\C:' 
CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories. 

I tried

dos('pushd  \\ALBERTO-PC\C:')

I get:

The network name cannot be found. Other ideas?

Answer 1

Try to map the UNC drive to a local drive and then use the mapped drive through the mapping

Answer 2

You can access you local C drive via explorer using what is called Client Drive Mapping. You can access those via a UNC path as well as \\CLIENT\C$ \\CLIENT\D$ etc. Do not use the client's hostname but use the hardcoded CLIENT name.