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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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UNC mapped drive without user sessions
There's a similar question, but it was about whether it is possible or not.
I want to put it in a different way:
How do I create a UNC mapped drive which will be mounted at startup without anybody ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Disconnect mapped drive with “Reconnect at logon” setting on Vista [closed]
How to disable the Reconnect at logon setting for a mapped network drive on Vista? How to disconnect already mapped drives?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
