drive mapping

Hello All, I have a fairly simple setup. 4 PCs, one acts as a defacto file server, running Win 11. The rest are mixes of Win 10 and 11. On one machine (call it newpc also running win11) trying to map to a specific drive on the file server, I get the error "you do not have permission to...

Hi all, First let me start with what I'm trying to accomplish: - My DC will also be a file server for sharing company documents and individual staff members will have their own personal drives (e.g. L: for Staff Files, M: for Company Files). - Be able to successfully ping DC/File server using...

I tried all kinds of formulas to phrase the search in Google but I couldn't get too close... Hence I am here now... Link Removed So I have about a dozen drives in my win 10 system. And sometimes I need to swap them to get clones or images or what not. The problem I have is even when I put...

Situation: NAS connected to network. NAS is reachable trough intern and extern networks. Firewall has it webdavs ports open (5005 / 5006) Router forwards the ports to the NAS his static IP. HOW can i connect to this network externally WITHOUT the use of third party programs? When i go to...

I have a medium sized network running. We are currently migrating and updating our shared folder systems. The old system is running Win 2k8 R2 and still has the old mapped drives running what we haven't migrated. The new shared folders are on a new server Win 2012 R2 with a different folder...

I have searched the internet to try and find a way to fix this issue and have tried every registry hack I've come across but have not been able to fix this. From all the reading I've done it seems that this has been an issue in some way or form since windows 95! Here is a run down with how it...

I am running windows 7 sp1 on a laptop. I have 9 network drives mapped. After I close the laptop lid (hibernate) and re open the lid, all the network drives have red x's. I can click on each drive and they come back. Is there any way to stop this from happening?

Hi all, Using Windows 7 Home Premium. I mapped a drive for OneDrive, now I am trying to change the icon in Windows Explorer. I saved the OneDrive.ico file from Temporary Internet Files. I right-clicked on the folder icon and selected Properties I clicked on the Customize Tab I clicked on the...

Whenever I try to map a windows 7 drive in my laptop to windows 8.1 laptop I get the following error that the spelling is not correct(but this is not true). I have checked the spelling finding no problems and I have opened all folders for sharing and security is set the same way reading and...

So, I've got a few issues and questions here regarding mapping a drive for use on other computers within a home network. I want to map my Windows 8 computer's media drive (which doesn't have the OS, but has everything else - media content) to another computer (a Windows 7 laptop). Is there...

I have a Dell OptiPlex 990 I purchased last May. I just restored it to factory settings because of a non-related issue, IE and a software DLL registration problems. Now that the system has been rebuilt and reattached to the Domain, I can't see networked computers. I am however, able to map a...

my dos application is installed in the c: of a xp server. my client is a win7-64 running virtual pc xp mode. can i map the c: of the xp server to the win7-64 virtual pc xp mode client. i.e. i want the full c: of the server to be mapped as z: in the win7-64 virtual pc xp mode. (to map, should i...

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Keeping a fixed drive letter for a mobile phone For over a year, I have been connecting my Android phone to my laptop with USB so that I can sync certain files. The software I use needs to be told where to sync to, and until recently this was always drive I when the phone was connected...

My new laptop running Windows 7 Professional and it is not easily recognizing other workgroup computers. When, and if, it does, it does not staying connected to other computers and a wireless printer on my workgroup. I have a desktop that is running Windows XP Home. It is sharing its printer and...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot map a drive to a WebDAV share on a Windows 7-based computer. This issue occurs when the WebDAV share is hosted on a web server that has ISA Server 2006 installed. More...

Fixes an issue in which a mapped drive is displayed incorrectly as a disconnected drive in Windows Explorer when you use the non-persistent flag to create the drive mapping. This issue occurs when you use Group Policy Preferences (GPP) to manage the... More...

I CURRENTLY HAVE PEACHTREE ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE INSTALLED ON MY DESKTOP AND AM TRYING TO INSTALL IT ON MY LAPTOP AND CREATE A NETWORK BETWEEN MY DESKTOP MY LAPTOP. WHEN I TRY TO "MAP THE NETWORK DRIVE" A WINDOW (SECURITY WINDOW) APPEARS REQUESTING A PASSWORD FOR MY COMPUTER. I HAVE TRIED EVERY...

I have 2 win7 64bit, i7 machines and want to share files/drives between. One machine (machine #2) lets me share its files but is very slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. The other machine (machine #1) won't let me share any folder/files (and map a drive for that matter) at all and gives me an error...

I have many Windows 2008 R2 servers running as my DCs. I created a drive mapping group policy on one of the 2008 servers to map my network drives in my AD environment. My Windows XP machines work great 100% of the time. In Windows 7, this is not the case. I cannot see the drive letters...