Questions tagged [mappeddrive]
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Windows 7 search not showing results from mapped Server 2008 R2 share
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 network share setup as a map drive in Win 7 x64. I want to search it via Windows 7 but I always get "no items match your search". It's as though it's not even ...
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Windows could not reconnect all network drives
OK, before you get all "OFF TO SUPERUSER WITH YOUR ISSUE!", they specifically state in their Help pages: "NOT about issues specific to corporate IT support and networks", and since this is a corporate ...
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EnableLinkedConnections isn't working on some Windows 10 machines
I have been using the "EnableLinkedConnections" registry setting below for years with no trouble. But lately with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, sometimes it doesn't work. I need to run some programs ...
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Administrator view ALL mapped drives
In my understanding of security, an administrator should be able to view all connections to and from a computer - just as they can view all processes/owner, network connections/owning process. ...
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Group Policy: Mapped Drives failing to load, Windows Server 2012 Active Directory and Windows Pro 10
Network:
Multi-site domain.
Each site has 2 local (on-site, same subnet) Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain controllers.
Sites are correctly defined in Windows Sites and Services.
DNS records for ...
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I can't map a network drive to sharepoint
On a Windows 8 client.
I can browse to my sharepoint site in 365 without issues: https://myPublicserver.sharepoint.com
But when I try to map a drive to that address I get this error:
"The folder you ...
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GPO not applying to an OU
We have a batch file (logon.bat) that maps drives whenever a user logs on.
This script is applied by Group Policy to the entire domain.
Initially, this worked perfectly, as we always wanted this ...
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Enable SQL Server to backup on remote machines/drives
I have a SQL Server (2000, 2005 and 2008) and I'd like to use SQL Agent (or even a simple backup database 'xxx' to disk = 'yyy'), to backup to remote drives.
I.e: i have a mapped drive in the SQL ...
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Unable to map a network drive from a Windows NT PC, to a Windows 2000 PC
I am trying to set up a test rack of legacy satellite communications equipment, and part of the configuration requires that I map a network drive on a PC (in this case, it's an IBM eServer xSeries 305 ...
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How can an ISO image be mounted to a specified drive letter in Powershell?
I have an ISO image (in this case an MS Office ISO) that I'd like to mount.
I'd like to use Powershell, and specify the drive letter assignment at the time of mounting, such that I can use scripting ...
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Why is Windows 7 booting up with Mapped drives showing as disconnected?
We've got numerous Windows 7 machines that will show a mapped network drive as disconnected on boot up. Seems to be all versions of Windows 7 as well. In the "My Computer" windows the mapped drive is ...
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Mapped drives not showing in first run of Windows Explorer
We have a handful of Windows XP SP3 users whose mapped drives don't always appear in Windows Explorer when they initially log in. "net use" shows the drives are mapped correctly and they can see them ...
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Enable offline file sync for computer owner only
At the school I am interning at, all students and faculty have a mapped home folder known as the "M:" drive for storing files that they can access from all computers. For faculty who have laptops, we ...
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Drive mapping maps two different folders for elevated and non-elevated programs
I have a Windows 2012 Domain with a couple of Windows 8 x64 Enterprise members. I want to use Group Policies to map a drive X: to a folder on a file server. The drive X: should be available on the ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Map User Specific Drive
On our old Windows 2003 SBS, the guy that set up the network created a login script that fired to map some drives and add a network printer. I would like to do away with that script and just use the ...
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How to make a disconnected drive?
kind of a weird question but how do I make a drive go from a OK state to disconnected state using net use? I do not want to delete it.
I am testing a script but the annoying thing is that to test the ...
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View free space on offline mapped network drive
We provide all of our users with a mapped network drive (H:) which we have re-directed my documents to. Using FSRM on the file server, each user is restricted to 5GB of disk space.
Windows ...
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Windows network - out of drive letters
I have a customer who has gone a bit insane with shares and driver letters - to the point where they're now out of letters in the alphabet to assign (that don't conflict with existing physical drives, ...
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Cannot view or map drives by host shortname
Why can I not view/use/map a drive from a machine using its short hostname if the short hostname is proven resolvable by DNS?
I have a machine (the client in this example) running Windows Server ...
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Cannot map drive letter to redirected folder when using Microsoft Remote Desktop
I'm having some difficulty getting the Folder Redirection feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop to work with command line applications.
The server machine is running Windows 2008R2.
The client machine ...
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How to determine how map drives are being mapped
I know there are several ways to map a drive letter to a networked resource in a Windows environment. What I would like to know is how to quickly determine the means for which each mapped drive is ...
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Drive Mapping Through Group Preferences
My department is currently transitioning our servers to Server 2008R2 and we are looking into using Group Preferences to map network drives. Our users currently have a personal network drive and at ...
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Windows Server 2008 mapped drives not showing on workstations?
I am running Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition with a Windows XP Pro workstation setup as a test unit.
I have added an Organisational Unit called 'Misc Users' and have linked a GP called 'Basic ...
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How to see what drive letters are mapped for network drive?
Is there a way to see what drive letters are in use for network drives?
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Double Click to open Office docs is slow, File -> Open is fast
I have 2 unique networks. They both share similar architecture:
Windows 2003 SBS SP2
Running Symantec Endpoint
Running Symantec Information Foundation
Shared drives off a data partition
Clients ...
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Windows 10 AAD Azure ad domain joined & SMB share
I have a number of Windows 10 clients domain joined to azure ad, I still have a local Windows 2012 r2 server onsite with a number of shares i wish to map to from the windows 10 clients. Bu if I try ...
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How can I map a network drive from another domain?
I am using terminal-service server with Windows Server 2012 and we have two terminal servers share trough NLB, users connect to a terminal in the DOMAIN1 domain with Remote Desktop Connection (see ...
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Can a batch run as admin launch another batch as limited user?
I have a batch that is being run with administrative privileges on a Windows 7 machine. That batch has to run another batch, which should access a mapped network drive. However, network drives are ...
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How to map a drive for a windows service?
I am supporting the installation of a CCTV system from the Windows 2003 R2 Standard side of the equation, the intention was to use use a NAS for long term storage (quite a lot of data is generated in ...
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What is needed to allow searching of file contents on remote 2012 R2 share
We have a remote desktop farm built on 2012 R2. Due to our users having to run Outlook in cached mode, we have not installed the windows search service on these session hosts as it breaks the Outlook ...
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Mapped Network Drive with SMB1 and Windows 10 [closed]
I have a Windows Server 2003 machine (I know, but it’s out of my control) with a bunch of network shares on it. I have a laptop that has just been rebuilt with Windows 10 2004. I’ve enabled CIFS/SMB1 ...
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Network drive map through GPO not working on Windows 2012 (Neither via logon script nor drive maps)
Although I thought this would be easy I am unable to automatically connect to a network drive via GPO.
I tried through a batch file on (User Configuration / Policies / Windows Settings / Script / ...
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Creators Update Stops Cross Domain GPO Drive mapping working ('0x80090005 Bad Data)
We're testing out Windows 10 Creators Update (Build 15063) here. So far this is the only unsolvable issue we've encountered.
This issue is exclusive to Creators: identical Users and GPO's work fine ...
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Ensure drive is mapped at login on laptop with strictly wireless
So, $software runs on a 'server' (windows client w/ file sharing to share out the db folder), and laptop client has the drive mapped and $software also installed. This is the vendor's recommended ...
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Why does accessing a folder via UNC path share not work but mapping the same path as a drive does?
I have two domains, PRIMARY and EXTERNAL. EXTERNAL has a one-way outgoing trust to PRIMARY so that PRIMARY's users can authenticate in EXTERNAL. Both domains have Windows Server 2008 DCs running at ...
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Map Floppy A drive to USB
I need a way to assign my windows A: drive to a usb. In fact multiple usb's keys and always the standard windows floppy drive A:. It doesn't need to be bootable...
Yes I know that I can set the drive ...
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How can I Persist connections to Microsoft Azure Files for all the users?
I have created file share in azure and mapped it to Virtual Machine entitled VM_01.
I have used CmdKey command to persist the credentials.
C:\>cmdkey /add:<yourstorageaccountname>.file....
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Can I Map a Network Drive on a server to itself (SharePoint Server)?
I'm running a Windows 2012 64bit Server R2, computer name server-01, and I want to map a network drive to a path located on the same server. (This is needed for SharePoint 2013 development.)
However, ...
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Sometimes do not get network drive maps in Windows 7 Enterprise
I have a user that has a AD (Windows 2003) loginscript that maps a number of drives. The user has to traverse an external network to login to the domain. It is a pretty reliable connection but it's ...
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UNC mapped drive without user sessions
There's a similar question, but it was about whether it is possible or not.
I want to put it in a different way:
How do I create a UNC mapped drive which will be mounted at startup without anybody ...
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Slow Access to Mapped Drive and WebDav
I'm running a Windows 8.1 x64 media server for my living group on my university's campus which serves about 40 people (though not all at the same time). It has a 1000Mbps synchronous connection to all ...
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any way to speed up mapped EFS share in Windows?
We just got an AWS account, and I was testing EFS. I created an EFS, mounted it on a Amazon Linux instance, and set it up to be shared in samba. I was then able to map the share as a drive in Windows ...
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Windows: Can I map a network drive for a service account?
The title says it all, really.
Is it possible to create a network drive mapping that is visible to a service? Supposing the service runs under a domain account that has permissions to the share, of ...
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Disconnect mapped drive with "Reconnect at logon" setting on Vista [closed]
How to disable the Reconnect at logon setting for a mapped network drive on Vista? How to disconnect already mapped drives?
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Questions regarding the command: "net use * http://myserver.com"
Apparently I'm able to net use * http://servername.com and this concept is completely new to me.
Does this mean I'm using WebDAV?
What are the security implications?
How can I read/write ...
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Drive mapping fails via GPO preferences but works fine in a VBScript
I'm running a few Windows Server 2008 R2 servers with domain computers running Windows XP SP3. Client side extension is installed.
I opted to use Group Policy Preferences over the conventional ...
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Auto Mapping Network Drives
I'm an IT Apprentice trying to use a group policy (in Windows Server 2012) to auto map network folders when someone first logs on to a machine. This is the batch file I have written and the 'Share' ...
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net use encountering "System error 67 has occurred." when trying to map from script running as service
I have a service running, on windows Server 2008 R2, which requires access to a webdav mapped drive, for copying file dependencies. Everything works when I run net use from command prompt:
net use z: ...
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GPP drive map to nested share maps to root share on Windows 8.1
Good day everyone, I'm in the midst of testing out Windows 8.1 as an enterprise OS to avoid a crisis when Win7 is no longer supported. One of the problems I've run into is with drive mappings. Most of ...
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How can I find which logon script is being run?
I'm having an issue with network drives. Suddenly some computers and users aren't getting their mapped network drives from the logon script. I am NOT a domain admin, I don't have permission to login ...
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