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Association of a drive letter (A through Z) with a remote storage in Microsoft Windows and OS/2

From wikipedia:

Drive mapping is how Microsoft Windows and OS/2 associate a local drive letter (A through Z) with a shared storage area to another computer over a network.

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Disconnect Specific Network Sessions

I'm busy making an HTA applet, which authenticates my users' sessions as they log on to their workstation. Ideally, I'd like to be able to terminate an active network session, instead of just removing the network drives which are made when users are…
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Mapped Drive not working from GPO

I am trying to map a network drive within an Active Directory Group Policy Object. When the domain was setup, we had a consultant map the first drive for us and it is working fine. I am going back to map a second drive to a targeted group (e.g.…
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Registering .net 4 dll on Clients Machines

I have some programs that some of them built with vb6 and others are .net and all of them runs in many client machines, vb6 programs uses some of the dlls of .net programs and because of this, i always have to register these .net dlls on client…
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Application Cannot Access Mapped Drive

When the application is executed with run as administrator it fails to find files on a mapped network drive using FindFirstFile. If the executable is run without run as administrator is works. The user is a local administrator on the PC. When…
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php XAMPP running as a service network mapped drive check

In our company we have XAMPP running on our server. XAMPP however is running as a service on our server. Essentially if XAMPP shuts down it restarts automatically running as a service. Now because XAMPP is running as a service the standard php…
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How do you permanently delete a persistent mapped drive on Windows Server 2012?

I found the answer to how to create a persistent mapped drive here: Map a network drive to be used by a service I used the sysinternals tools to set it up and it works perfectly. The server was cloned and now it shows up there as well. Using the…
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Check if a drive is mapped and active

I have a requirement within my VBScript to ensure that a drive is mapped and contactable. Initially I was using only the DriveExists() method of the FileSystemObject, but this fell short as in certain scenarios users start the day in the office but…
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How to connect to mapped/local disk using different credentials?

I know I can use the WNetAddConnection2 and similar variants to connect to remote shares using custom credentials. I would like to do the same for mapped drives (ex:\\MyShare\MyFolder mapped to Y:) and my local disks (eg: C:,D:,E:, etc...) If I…
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Using a link/junction between web servers

I am trying to figure a way of connecting 2 web server's file systems together so they can access each others files natively. The servers are Windows 2012 and connected directly to the internet via public IPs. One server will be for storing large…
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Net Use command fails when running a batch file as an Administrator

I am trying to map a drive with an elevated batch file but any attempt to use the Net Use command fails. The error is always: "The system cannot find the drive specified." I am using the following code: Net Use w: "\Server\Folder" It works fine…
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Win8.1 Net Use Succeeds, Mapped Drive Fails

A client has a nas box (nas01) and a batch script to connect three drives to it at startup. net use h: \\nas01\home\Foo /user:Foo bar net use m: \\nas01\music /user:Foo bar net use p: \\nas01\media /user:Foo bar From windows Explorer clicking…
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(yet another) problem with mapped drive via the command line

I know, I know. There are a million threads everywhere talking about problems with mapped drives. I've ready many of them but I still can's seem to wrap my head around this problem or come to a solution. I have a build server/continuous integration…
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VBA - Write to a mapped network drive

Hello to the VBA Developers I'd like to write to a mapped network drive ( P:\) The following code doesn't seem to function and generates the error executing 76. Could you explain to me the reason for this error and how to resolve it? Thank you very…
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Full path of the file from the remote server

I am working with files and I don't really understand how to make it work. I have a web application (c#) that is located on the server and users use this application to upload some information from the files. The problem that I am having that users…
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Windows 8: Task Scheduler Mapping Network drive with batch file or VBS

I am trying to schedule a task on my Windows 8.1 Laptop that i use both for office and home use. I wish to automatically map my network drives when i connect to my home network. The task scheduling part is working however when the batch file is…
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