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Can't map to shares on new WinXP machine

I have a new WinXP machine that won't allow other Windows machines to map drive letters to its shares. Windows Update was allowed to update everything it wanted a few weeks ago multiple times until it finally said everything was up to date. This…
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How do I extract the Drive letter from the result of EnumNetworkDrives

I'm using EnumNetworkDrives to list out all the drives on a machine. I'd like to determine which object in the collection is drive "X" What object is returned in EnumNetworkDrives that has a property I can compare to a drive letter?
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Active Directory Mapped Drive won't stay connected

WinSrv08R2. I have a drive mapped to Win7 clients via Group Policy that's on another computer (an OS X server, mapped via "\serverIP\folder"). EVERY time the user logs out and then back in, it pops up "Could not reconnect all network drives", except…
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Confused about net use local admin behavior for remote administrative shares

I have a windows 2008 R2 server I'm trying to access remotely, specifically I'm trying to use the c$ admin share. The server is on a domain My user is in the server's local admin group My user is a domain account Trying to map the share in…
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Does Windows Server 2008 R2 cache mapped network drive files?

In my Win2k8 AD server the default group policy maps a drive letter to a geographically distant site connected via VPN. Normally typing in the network path in the Explorer address takes at least 10 secs to load, but access via the drive mapping e.g.…
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Group Policy drive maps fail with Error Code: 0x80070043

I'm running a Server 2008 R2 domain with all Windows 7 x64 bit client machines. All drives are mapped using Group Policy. Which were previously on a NAS We just built a new, huge, fast server. So I'm in the process of migrating all the network…
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"Path Not Found" when attempting to write to a sub folder within a mapped drive

We have an interesting issue with one of our server shares, or possibly, our Win 7 desktops. When our users try to save files in a sub folder, either via copy/paste or through an application, to a mapped drive on our DC they receive an error saying…
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GPO for drive mapping won't work with %LogonUser% in location field

I'm struggling with a problematic drive mapping user preference where I'm trying to use the user's %LogonUser% variable to a network location (eg. \server\folder\users\%LogonUser%), but the drive mapping fails to appear after logging off and logging…
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Sharing a Folder on a USB Drive

I've been running a 5-drive software RAID under Windows 2003 Server. When it fails, it causes really strange problems that are difficult to deduce. After the third occurrence, I've decided to try using a Drobo instead, connected via USB2. The…
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Auto-mapping network drive when a user logs in

I used to know how to do this a few years ago, but I can't remember how I did it. I have one machine that is used by 5 different people. I need to map their home drive/folder when a user logs in with their credentials. The client OS is Windows XP.…
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Allow ColdFusion to access mapped drive?

On our production web server, it has a mapped drive (G:) that goes to the database backup folder of our database server. I can access it via termainal services easily, no problem. However, if i want to run a coldfusion app, to work with that…
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Are network drives visible for Scheduled Tasks?

I have a problem with a scheduled task which uses a mapped network drive. On some days the task does not get executed without any traces in the event log. The task launches an application on a mapped network drive. Most of the time a remote desktop…
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Connecting to a Windows Server 2008 through VPN

I have this issue, I have a W2K8 Server in which I'd like to establish a VPN Connection for a small group of Users (like 7 or 8). Heres some information about the server obtained by using cmd > ipconfig /all this is dummy info by the way but I'll…
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My mapped network drive keeps losing password to Win Server 2008 share

We have WinXP machines on a domain which have a mapped network drive to a share on a Server 2008 computer that is not in the domain. The credentials on the share are a local account on the Server 2008 box. The problem we are having is after a reboot…
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Windows XP Insists Upon Reconnecting to Network Drive on Startup (Stop It)

I once mapped a network drive and accidentally checked Reconnect at logon. Now, no matter what I do, Windows insists upon connecting to that drive at startup. Here's what I've tried in order to stop it, with a liberal sprinkling of restarts in…
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