mapped drives

The title says it all really - woke up this morning, switched on the laptop, and Windows 7 is showing my logical (D) drive as a disconnected network drive... I can still access it ok, but all shortcuts to any folders in it that are on the desktop now have something (can't make out what) on top...

Windows 7 Enterprise 90 day (64bit) A big improvement over 7 RC which would hang if I attempted any file sharing with my Ubuntu Samba share. However, now I can read my shares but can't write to a writeable share with guest access. I have added the cridetials 'guest' with no password and that...

I have the Windows 7 Professional installed on my computer and I have a tower setup in the living room that is Vista Home Basic. The Vista PC just runs 24/7 and runs as my server where I store all my music/videos. I share the "R Drive" on this PC as \\Desktop2\RDrive When I map this network...

My home network has a networked hard drive. When I first started using Windows 7, (build 7100), I had no problems mapping it and reconnecting automatically at every logon. Recently, (last month or so), I have found that when I try to map the network drive I get an error: "The account is not...

Hello All! Well lets get right to it, I come from a mainly *nix background and generally use Windows mainly for work. So far, I have been extremely impressed with Windows 7. I do have one beef though that I have unable to find anything via the almighty google. I have ~4 exports I would like to...

Hi, i work in the IT Department and I have just installed Windows 7 on a laptop, this has laptop has then been put on the domain and been setup accordingly I have a Group Policy where a VBS Script is run to map network drive depending on group Memberships this was working when i had XP...

I recently switched a netbook computer on our LAN from XP (on which all machines had been) to Win 7rc (x86). No other settings or configurations on the network have changed, but the netbook suddenly can't fully connect to the Synology network drive. All the other computers on the network still...

Hello.. I have a couple of "Mapped Network Drives" on my Windows 7 Computer that go to a XP Pro machines hooked into my network.. I've been having this problem ever since I installed Windows 7. When I click on the network share drive, it asks for credentials and I correctly enter them and select...

I'm trying to set up a development environment at work. I'm the only one using Windows. Others have the environment set up on Linux and Mac. I'm hoping this is possible but I'm stuck on one particular issue that is driving me crazy! I need to connect to a shared network drive via NFS. I...

Hi, I currently have 2 HDD's 1 - Western Digital 640 GB (SATA), partitioned into 450 GB and 190 GB 2 - Seagete 160 GB (IDE), paritioned into 100 GB and 60 GB When I installed windows 7 (fresh install), all four partitions were recognized properly. Though the drive letter assignment was a...

Hi all I have a wireless router to which I have attached a Maxtor Shared Storage drive by cat5. I have two Windows 7 laptops, one I can map the drives fine with, the other when I try am told I don't have the access rights to and to contact the administrator ? I have previously connected using...

Great forum everyone! Many of the responses have helped me a lot. This situation is a bit different so I decided I needed to post this question. There are 3 active PCs in this house. My wife's PC still has Win-XP on it. My workstation has Win-7 v7100 RC 64 bit and it runs very well indeed. My...

I currently am doing file sharing through Samba. My Samba server is running on Fedora Core 8, and I am trying to access the network drive through Windows 7. I can map a network drive to Samba, and I can view and share my files fine. The problem I am having is that I always ask it to save...

Wow I am so frustrated right now I cant remember the last time I was so frustrated! I have installed two fresh installations of 7264 x64 on two desktops. They are connected to a private network. I want to share the hard drives in both of them (say, C/: and D:/ )but I was running into all kinds...

I've been running Win 7 now for a couple of weeks and have had no serious problems. The one thing I have been seeing has been with our domain group policies. We are running a 2003 domain and have set group policy to map drives on boot up and warn users when that their password is about to...

Every now and then I will "lose" all of my network drives. Ending explorer.exe and reloading it always fixes the problem. Does it forget about my drives or something?! :o I have seen this once before in my life with XP, but since moving to 7, it has been a semi-regular occurrence (once a week...

Hello all, Does anyone have a solution to the unholy mess that is the way that windows 7 handles logon scripts when the user is a local administrator? To be fair Vista is no better, but Windows 7 seems to have changed things again and not for any gain that I can see. My GP logon scripts...

So, running Windows 7 RC on a laptop. Have a Vista PC (all latest updates and SPs) on my home network that has multiple shares (photos, music, docs etc). Have mapped these shares onto my W7 laptop. Whenever I try and access the files in the shares (open photos to view, docs to edit etc)...

I am currently testing out Media Center and trying to add a shared library folder for Music off of another networked machine. This machine's hostname begins with a ".". So, it looks like "\\.host\shared folder". When I try to connect to this share, Media Center will report "A valid shared...

Hey, in the Win7 beta I could add a network drive (on a samba file server) to the Music library. But the Win7 RC gives an error message when I try that: This network location can't be included because it's not indexed It also won't add or index mapped network drives; including my home...