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Azure website virtual drive and scaling
My current understanding of Azure for websites is that it is using a virtual drive which allows a website to save files to the file system in the same way a classic server setup would do.
The ...
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Win 2008 Group Policy : Does Drive Maps (GPP) run before Logon Script setting? Both user configs are set within same policy [duplicate]
I'm on Win 2008 R2 DC with XP and Win7 desktops.
On one of User GPOs, there is Drive Maps and Logon Script configured.
Drive Maps are under GPP, and Logon Script is under user config.
Both user ...
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Why does accessing a folder via UNC path share not work but mapping the same path as a drive does?
I have two domains, PRIMARY and EXTERNAL. EXTERNAL has a one-way outgoing trust to PRIMARY so that PRIMARY's users can authenticate in EXTERNAL. Both domains have Windows Server 2008 DCs running at ...
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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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Mapped drive in Windows 7 becomes inaccessible
I have a Windows 7 64 bit machine that has several drive mappings. After a while intermittently two of the four the mapped drives become inaccessible and the user gets an error that reads "This file ...
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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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How to create a Map Drive with Username and Password for different folders [closed]
How can i create a map drive with a username and password required when accessing the drive? i already have map drives and i already input a username and password in ( Connect as optional ) field. ...
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how to create a samba share to the /home directory
So i'm a developer, not a dev ops person so i'm out of my element. Thanks in advance for your patience.
I'm running windows 7 and set up a vmware player to run an ubuntu 12 virtual machine. I've ...
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RHEL 5 How to set mount location of multipath device?
I have a RHEL5 + 3Par FC SAN storage environment and am unsure how to setup a multipathed FC device to mount to particular location like /data. I have the 3Par Implementation guide for RHEL and it ...
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Network Drive Mapping Cannot be seen or accessed with Explorer but Can at the DOS prompt
A problem where a network map drive cannot be seen with Windows explorer but can be located and accessed from the DOS prompt. I was also able to access the map drive (z:) when I ran explorer from the ...
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Mapped drives not showing in first run of Windows Explorer
We have a handful of Windows XP SP3 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 ...
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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 ...
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Change drive letter of DVD drive
I am trying to use a Drive Maps GPO on Server 2012 - User Configuration -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -> Drive Maps.
Problem is I want to map a drive to D: but this is automatically assigned to ...
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Map path server with workgroup to other server with domain
I have the following situation, and I need some help to setup properly
I have two VPS (hosted with the same provider, maximumasp). Server A is 2008R2, set with WORKGROUP, and server B is 2012, set ...
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Hosting sites on mapped drives
My question is simple, We have an web server running windows 2008 with IIS. We map a network drive from our storage facilities to it and host the site that way.
I am wondering if there are likely to ...
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AD Home Folder not reconnecting
I know there's a lot of talk about scripts mapping network drives, but I haven't seen much about this specific problem. We have our users' home folders defined in Active Directory user objects, 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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Terminal Server 2008 not mounting drive at logon because 'unknown username or bad password'
We have a 2008 Terminal Server connected to a Windows black box on the network. The TS has a group policy applied to it that maps drives (Group Policy Preference in computer section) at logon. The ...
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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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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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CentOS as windows 7 drive
i have a server, which i usually connect through ssh(password), the server is on a network and runs CentOS, but i work from a windows 7 computer. i have been searching to create a network drive ...
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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 ...
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Having problems with UNC on XP and Windows 7
Our client/server legacy application accessed media files on a server via mapped drives. We changed this to UNC paths because of security, but now we are having a lot of problems with it.
Our ...
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Windows: Can I map a network drive for a service account?
The title says it all, really.
Is it possible to create a network drive mapping that is visible to a service? Supposing the service runs under a domain account that has permissions to the share, of ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Map User Specific Drive
On our old Windows 2003 SBS, the guy that set up the network created a login script that fired to map some drives and add a network printer. I would like to do away with that script and just use the ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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map a drive through NET USE command [duplicate]
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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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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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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How to map a drive for a windows service?
I am supporting the installation of a CCTV system from the Windows 2003 R2 Standard side of the equation, the intention was to use use a NAS for long term storage (quite a lot of data is generated in ...
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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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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 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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Enable SQL Server to backup on remote machines/drives
I have a SQL Server (2000, 2005 and 2008) and I'd like to use SQL Agent (or even a simple backup database 'xxx' to disk = 'yyy'), to backup to remote drives.
I.e: i have a mapped drive in the SQL ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
