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Can I map a Mac OS Extended Journaled partition on a Windows PC
I have a shared directory on a Mac Server that I want to map to my Windows 7 PC.
It worked fine on the old mac server as the hard drive was formatted as NTFS, but on this new one (which we got ...
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Mapping a Drive to File Server (Win2008) results in incorrect password / username error after Reboot or Logoff/in
Here is the setup. Very small network. Windows 2008 with a single folder shared as 'Data'. Win2k8 server (called Server) has user account called Staff that is part of Users group. On a network ...
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Can't map network drive on Windows 7 after closing VPN connection
So the command below works if I reboot my computer. But whenever I VPN to a certain customer's network on Windows 7, I lose my mapped drive. And when I try to re-establish the mapped drive (even ...
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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 ...
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Encrypt each users home Centos 6 and access from windows?
I'm trying to set up a shared drive for my team using Centos. The team might have root privileges through sudo on this system.
The over all goal is under /home/ have each member dir be encrypted so ...
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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 ...
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Diagnostics requested to determine why mapped drives disappear
This is my first server fault post (more of a stackoverflow guy).
We have several shared drives (on Win Server Standard 2008, SP2), which intermittently seem to lose a connection during the day. ...
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map a drive through NET USE command [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Useful Command-line Commands on Windows
we need to mape a network folder on 2008server and client is XP; we want to use the command line on windows XP
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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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2003 files server
I have a Windows 2003 Server which is hosting files on a raid 5 array. When I restart the server to install update etc all workstaions on the network have to be restarted to connect to the server ...
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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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how to detect moment when mapped network drives are lost on Windows 7
For some reason, I keep losing access to my company's network drives. I'm using Windows 7. What could cause this? I'm the only one that VPN's to a certain client using the Windows 7 VPN ...
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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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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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Desktop machine tries to map network drive with the wrong credentials
I'm on a Windows domain. And I have a user that is trying to access the C$ admin share on one of our servers. He has all the proper permissions, and usually tries to access the share via run ...
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Mapped Network Drive Timeout
I have two networks: work and home. The work subnet is 192.168.0.x whereas home's subnet is 192.168.1.x
At work I have two mapped drives but at home I don't have either. Any time I open explorer at ...
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logon script -> if mapped drive's unc = this then disconnect and remap, otherwise do nothing
I'm in the process of moving file servers. Once completed, I will have to change the UNC path that the mapped drive letters used network wide to point to the new machine. I want to handle the change ...
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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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Stopping CSC with a GPO
I have network drives mapped to my users.
If they lose network connection for any reason, it pulls up the client side cached version of it and lets the user work in that.
Now some duplicate ...
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Win Server 2008 R2 - Mapped shared folder hanging?
I have recently built a windows 2008 server R2 machine. This is purely for file server purposes and is very much a basic build.
All windows updates installed and part of domain.
I have setup a ...
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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 ...
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Mapped network drives using GPO falsely showing disconnected
Network drives are mapped using GPO, however some of the drives are showing up as "Disconnected Network Drive X:" even though they are connected. The icon shows them as connected and if you click on ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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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Stop people mapping my Drives
I am on a network, and I'd like to control people mapping my drives.
Is there a way to globally stop all people from mapping any of my drives?
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Mapped drives not showing in first run of Windows Explorer
We have a couple of 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 in File Open ...
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Resource usage of mapped drives versus network location shortcuts?
One group within our IT department wants to eliminate all drive mappings from our network and replace them with simple Network Location (UNC) shortcuts. The group claims the drive mappings consume ...
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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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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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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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Mapping drives on MacOSX (Leopard/Snow Leopard) permanently inside LAN
How do I "map" shared folders on a Mac, permanently? With map, I do not mean 'connect', but permanently add it to the system so it exists after reboot. Since workstations tend to shutdown, I wonder ...
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Computer authenticating with incorrect DC…sort of
I have a login script that uses the LOGONSERVER environment variable. I have several remote offices. There is one file server/DC in each office and each office is their own site. So when a user logs ...
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Auto-drive mapping for each user
I'm trying to auto map for each users in my AD a folder on the server/
So I'm trying to use the new feature in SBS/Server 08 :
User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps
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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 ...
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Disconnected Network Drive
We have a big problem that's just started happening. One of our network apps (may it rot in hell) requires a mapped network drive to function. Therefore, we map a drive to the network share in ...
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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 ...
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How do I enable user-level mapped drives for Windows services?
I have two Windows services, "ServiceA" and "ServiceB". Each service runs under the user names "UserA" and "UserB" respectively, and in all other respects the services are identical (separate ...
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Mapped network drive or Network share - which is better?
We have a Windows 2003 server with about 30 clients.
I am trying to re-organize our network shares when i began wondering:
Why are we even using mapped drives? why not just use network shares e.g. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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net use command - system error 5 while mapping a network drive
I got a system error 5 while mapping a network drive of a server to my local machine using the net use command.
This error doesn't occur when I use Administrator account of the server. When I use my ...
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Mapped Drive -> UNC
We don't have a common set of drive mappings at our company for certain network shares. Inevitably, someone will create a custom drive mapping to a folder, then they will link to a document under ...
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mapping server 2008 network drive to vista home premium x64
We have a windows server 2008 box at my work place. I want to map a drive from the server to my laptop. I use windows vista home premium x64.
I am connected to my workplace through VPN. i can map ...
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Vista Workstation Creates Documents folder on 2003 File Server
I have a lab of notebook running vista they map to a h drive on a windows 2003 server r2.
The users that have xp dont have this issue but the vista users home drives changed their structure on the ...
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windows 7 mapped drive visibility problem
I just installed Windows 7 RTM on my developer machine. Right after the installation I added my domain account to local administrators group and added the machine to company's domain.
We use local ...
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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 ...
