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Sometimes drive mappings don't connect at logon

I have this strange problem at all our clients. Sometimes, when u user logs on, a drive-mapping is missing. So for example, the user needs 2 drive-mappings, but gets only one. We are deploying drive-mappings through GPO. I am aware of these…
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Other virtual drive formats for linking to physical disk device or to archive content

It is known that you can link to physical disk device through VMDK virtual drive format. It works on Mac*, Lin*, Win* with VirtualBox or VMware ( here solution with VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk is described ). I repeat: it is about…
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map drive automatically using user credentials for server in separate forest

We have two completely separate forests with no trusts between them. I can map a drive on my computer to a server in the other forest by using the 'Connect using different credentials' option in 'Map Network Drive' (which gives a user/pass prompt)…
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Use network drive in sftp on Windows 2016

I'll start by specifying I'm not in the Sysadmin team at work, I work in another building with a small team and we are the "special cases". So they gave me full admin on our servers but I have no knowledge/power on the rest. I have two servers,…
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map drives to local server depending on which location you plug in

I have three locations all connected via site-to-site VPN to each other. I have a server at each location with mirrors of each other holding 3+TBs of data. I can use GPOs to map drive letters to a specific server by moving the user to an…
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Sharing symbolic links on networked drive - is not accessible due permissions

We have several windows servers 2012 R2. And a file server provided by a third party, which provides a volume available thru CIFS/SMB. I want create symbolic folder on win server to "file server" and shared it. So, on Win server 2012 I created…
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Make sure a network drive stays connected

On a Windows Server 2003, I keep losing the connection to the network drives - or to be more specific - they disconnect. Now I can simply log on and double-click the network drives, and they without problems - but they will disconnect again…
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Drive map recreation via GPO during background refresh

We have a drive map GPO that applies to our users container, so that drive maps are created on any machine the user logs into. What we have found, is that if the maps are deleted, and a gpupdate /force is run, the maps do not reappear. In fact, they…
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Windows Search doesn't return all results from parent folder

We have an issue with Windows Search since we moved the file server from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2. I do have Windows Search installed and the shares indexed (almost 1 million files and I have re-indexed the files). From the mapped drives on workstations…
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Command Line net use mapped path without Drive letter doen't appear in Windows Explorer

I've searched extensively and have not found a post with the answer. If you use Explorer to "Add Network Location", it will add that mapped path under the used drive letters area on the left without a drive letter. Windows Explorer Mapping Due to…
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ByPass credential prompting on drive map - windows server 2k3

I have 2 windows server 2k3 machines - server A and server B, Server A is on the company domain, and Server B is not. I have a need to bypass the credential prompting that happens every time I map a drive from Server B to Server A. The reason i…
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Can ssh and ping but cannot map to SAMBA drive

I am trying to connect to a linux server which is set up as shares in samba. I am able to ssh and ping to the samba server, but when I attempt to map the drive through windows it says "Windows cannot access \ip\example. Given that I could ssh to it…
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"'Network Drive' refers to a location that is unavailable" while UNC works

Situation: Environment is a Windows Domain with 160+ Clients, several DCs. No WINS. DNS working. Fileserver is a Windows Server 2012 R2, patched regularly, SMB shares, proper NTFS and share permissions. Clients are Windows 7 x64 machines. Clients…
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Windows 10 - Mapped Network Drives Not Showing Right Away

I am hoping someone can assist me with this since I can't seem to find out what the issue is. We are currently using Windows 10 and I have tried it several ways, but they all result in the same way. I created a .vbs to map network drives. I…
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Mapped drives aren't syncing on workstations

It seems like a few workstations on our network aren't syncing with the mapped drives, pretty randomly, so for example, different users on the same computer would see different files on the mapped drive, causing confusing and files to go missing…
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