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Network connection keeps dropping - bad hardware?

I've into a bit of a wall with a client of mine. In an office of 20 people, he is the only one who experiences broken connections to his mapped network drives. I have everyone set up with about 6 mapped drives, all pointing to the same server (no…
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Missing Home Folder XP Clients 2008R2 Domain

We just completed a migration from Server 2003 to Server 2008R2. Everything seems to have gone well except that many of our desktops have stopped mapping the Home Folder as set in Active Directory. Other mappings that are defined on individual…
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Mapped drive inaccessible after router reboot

I have a server with a mapped drive on it (maps to a directory on another server across the network). I also have an application that writes a file to the mapped drive (regularly scheduled, but monitored by e-mail). Periodically a router in between…
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Odd mapped drive issues

I have a small business customer that we just moved to a new building. Other than a new firewall the network is the same. On one XP pro PC one of the mapped drives works fine if you reboot and keep the folder open, but if you close the folder he is…
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Move website by switching drive letters

I want to move all website data from one drive to another as the storage is almost full. As I also want to keep the drive letter to the website drive I thought of switching the drive letters in windows to move to the new drive. Here is what I…
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Network drives not shown on some users. Explorer need to be restarted

we have windows domain, with a gpo where the drives are mapped, one of the users just one, has the problem the drives are not shown or disappears after a time. Strangely if you use any other programms or type the correct path you see them/works. So…
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How to tell credentials used for a Network Mapping?

I have a networking mapping that doesn't appear to work. When I connect to the mapping I get access denied when I try to create a folder. When I created the mapping I told it to login as another account. I have verified that account has the proper…
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Working directly on network drives cause lags

i have a problem with network drives. Users are working directly on files in network drive (mostly graphic files like .ai, .psd etc. from adobe). Drives are mapped via gpo from another server (shared folders on server b are mapped to users on server…
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Why am I not able to run exe files from a mounted ISO

I use windows 11. I have tried mounting 3 ISO files and with the same outcome. I am unable to run any .exe files from it. Other files like .txt work fine. If I extract the ISO using a file extractor and then run the .exe files, they work fine but…
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How to figure out which UNC path a mapped network drive points to remotely

There is a file server named, FileServer1. On FileServer, there resides a mapped network drive, F:. From my local machine, Client, I can get to the F drive using UNC path, \\FileServer1\f$ Now I'd like to figure out where that F: is pointing to…
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Drive Mapping through GPO on few Servers

I have a requirement to fulfill related to Drive mapping through GPO. We have a domain (let's call it contoso.com). Under contoso, we have an OU "InfraComputers" where there are 1000s of Server's Computers Objects Under contoso, we have multiple OUs…
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Deleted Drive Map via GPO Still Showing

I have a mapped gpo drives configured on my Windows Server 2012r2 and it works great when mapping a drive. The issue is when I delete a drive b/c it is no longer needed, it still reappears even after gpupdate /force command is run on both the DC and…
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Why does "Remove this item when it is no longer applied'' in Drive Maps preferences disconnect users' AD home folder?

When I enable "Remove this item when it is no longer applied" for any mapped drive in Group Policy preferences, the user's home folder that is mapped by their Active Directory account attributes gets disconnected. Why is this happening? This is how…
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Retrieve Actions-property of an via group-policy mapped network drive on Windows-client

is it possible to retrieve detailed informationen about mapped network drives, which are configured via group policy, on the client side? Especially i'm interested in the…
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Powershell / Command prompt cannot switch to mapped drive when running as another use

in my powershell prompt, logged into a Windows 10 PC as Domain\UserA i can run the net use command to see my shared drives net use lists +--------+-------+----------------+---------------------------+ | Status | local | Remote | …
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