1. A method of displaying, in a shell executing on a remote computing device, data associated with a drive of a remote computing device together with data associated with a client drive of a client computing device, without explicitly mapping the client drive onto the remote computing device, the method comprising: receiving, by a client agent executing on the remote computing device, an indication of an operation on the client computing device; transmitting, by the client agent executing on the remote computing device, a request for data to a client agent executing on the client computing device; receiving, by the client agent executing on the remote computing device, data identifying one or more characteristics of the client drive of the client computing device; generating, by the client agent executing on the remote computing device, a shell link using the data identifying one or more characteristics of the client drive received from the client agent executing on the client computing device in the context of a user session, wherein the shell link comprises a data object that contains information used to access the client drive of the client computing device; and displaying, by the client agent executing on the remote computing device, the data associated with the drive of the remote computing device together with the data identifying the one or more characteristics of the client drive of the client computing device in the shell executing on the remote computing device by accessing the shell link, without explicitly mapping the client drive onto the remote computing device.