mapped drives

Hi, Could anyone enlighten me : My lap top with windows 7 professional 32bit has been accessing on the authorized folders in Windows server 2003 for a few months. once in a blue moon, it could not be accessed. I disconnected the network drive, and did the map net work drive again. It...

I have an issue accessing the files within NAS share from cmd prompt on Windows 7 professional. Details: I have mapped the X: to a shared NAS folder. I could access the folder and see the files through windows Explorer, but when I go to "cmd" prompt and "cd X:" and type in the command dir it...

I am using a computer as a storage area network, which means i have a shared hard drive mapped to 12 computers in the network, since i upgraded the operating system from server 2003 to windows 7 professional 64bit I'm having a problem that only the computers with windows 7 can access the...

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...

I have Windows 7 in my office. We have Windows domain. I have created several drive mappings to shared drives. They used to work. Now, whenever I reboot my PC, they have red x on them. I can click them and reactivate them but when I shutdown and power backup or restart...they go red x...

Windows 7 computer hard wired to network. All is well. Can see the other computer and mapped drives all connect. I have the need to move the computer so I unplug it and turn on the wireless. Finds network, internet up, but no computers and mapped drives won't connect. I started a workgroup...

Setup: Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) I've been accessing the same couple of mapped drive shares, that reside on a linux host thru several versions of windows, XP, Vista and now Win7. I continue to get a rather ridiculous error message that only happens on win7 (I no longer have a Vista OS...

New to the forums but I have no clue what is going on here... I am using Win 7 Pro x32. When I use RDP to connect to another computer, I noticed that on the remote computer (sometimes) as well as on my local machine (always), it creates a "Z:" drive. It isn't like a mapped network drive though...

Here is an odd one. Win7 Enterprise PC connected to Server 2003 acting as a file server. For no apparent reason (no software or hardware changes on either machine) when attempting to map a drive from the server all mappings are named as 'Pen Drive' 'drive letter'. i.e mapping a shared folder...

Hi all! I have problem with Windows 7 Home Premium installed on my laptop. Every time when i reboot computer it prompts me with this annoying message "Could not reconnect all network drives". Mapped drive in My Computer gets red X, and it allows access to network share only if I retype...

A user uses their My Documents on a NAS, so have a mapped drive ie: S: I attempted to change Start - Documents - properties to s:\My documents, but Win 7 reported "unable to add because not indexed" I later found Users\User\My Documents - properties - location to s:\My documents, however...

A User stores their "My documents" on a NAS unit I have a mapped a drive through to My Documents ok however after each reboot the Mapped Drive is not connected & the Username & password must be entered in the connection window, a connection is then established ok I have checked "Save...

I have recently installed a NAS storage device to my network, I am try to "map network drive but cannot get further than the username and password screen. Ican see the drive when I browse to install however I am prompted to put my username and password in when I click to add. It is asking...

We are having a problem with network resources randomly disappearing and reappearing on several Windows 7 computers on our LAN. Let me define the environment. Domain LAN with 7 Windows 2003 32 bit servers, including a DC, DHCP, etc. Desktop computers including 4 Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit plus...

Hi. Setup: 1. Windows 7 Home Prem - (PC-A) This is my new machine 2. Windows XP Pro SP2 - (PC-B) This is my old machine which will end up being my server 3. Windows XP Pro SP3 - (PC-C) This is my netbook All three are connected wirelessly to a Wifi router. I'm quiet new to...

Hi everyone, I've been tearing my hair out trying to work out why half of our PC's/Laptops are able to connect to our server and the other half can't since we upgraded to Windows 7. Everyone is using identical firewall and settings (ESET). I've done the NTLM negotiation change but no...

Two computers are windows 7. One is windows XP. I am not running a HomeGroup. I didn't like how it shared the C:\Users folder by default. From computer A( the problem one) I can sometimes see the other machines on the network. For example, if I was to map a drive to another machine or just...

When mapping network drives for my work and co-workers I use Link Removed and ninety nine percent of the time this works. Randomly the network drives will require there full name as to be Link Removed would there be a reason for this? The ports all seem to be in working order, no rights or...

We are experiencing a lot of disconnections problem with our network drives. Different versions of windows 7 (professional, business, ultimate) are experiencing this issue at random interval. All our mapped drives are local on servers operating under windows 2008 or 2003. Theses map drives...

I am trying to map a network drive at work, we just bought new laptops with Win7 home premium. With XP when we mapped a drive we put in the address, it asked for a user name and password and bammmm theres the drive. With Win7 I put in the address of the drive, then the username and password...