mapping drives

I have a PC running Windows running Windows 10 ver. 22H2 and a laptop running the same, except for a minor variation in the build, on my home network. Both have an OS partition and a Data partition. I want to access the Data partition of the other from each machine, but cannot. I am able to see...

I am having trouble mapping my nas drive on my Windows 8 .1desktop. I have a qnap 212 nas and have shared the multimedia and public folders. The data is all on the nas because my media streamers can access music through twonkymedia. Having looked it up i have found several links advising on...

New 8.1 laptop. Whenever I try to map network a windows 7 drive in my laptop to windows 8.1 laptop I get the following error that the spelling may not be correct(but this is not true). Can't find "Link Removed" May be spelling?? I have checked the spelling finding no problems and I have opened...

I'm trying to create a system image on an external hard drive using the Win7 software (i.e. STart>Control Panel>System and Security> Backup and Restore). I understand that the external HD must be connected directly to the computer so I disconnect the internet and connect the HD (using a...

Just got a new pc that has W8, came from XP. I have a popcorn hour NMT with an internal HDD that I have networked and was working fine with my old pc. The drive is mapped and is visible in windows explorer and I can even upload files to it with Filezilla. When I try to modify a file through w...

I have a problem I have two win 7 machines one is a 32 bit and the other is a 64 bit. They are both connected to a network wirelessly. The machine that has the router is a XP machine. On the two win 7 machines i am trying to Wac into the other to have access to all the files on it so I do not...

When you try to map to a network drive of a DFS Share by a Windows Vista-based or Windows 7-based computer, you receive an error message. This behavior is by design. This article describes a way to work around this behavior. Link Removed

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...

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...

Hi, Can anyone help please, i'm currently looking for a pistol to put to my head!!! I cant map network drives between my Windows vista business and Windows 7 ultimate machines. They will both see each other in the netork map in explorer but when i try to map them i get an access denied message...

Here is the situation, I have two computers on my home network, one is a desktop running windows 2000 and it has an external hard drive attach to it. The other is a laptop recently upgraded to windows 7 home premium. I had Windows Vista before and was able to map my Windows 2000 hard drives...

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...

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...

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 have read every variation in several forums to no avail. I have 2 machines on running XP Pro SP3 and on running Win 7 7057. When I had Win Beta 7000 I figured out the Networking in a few minutes. I have been working on this for 2 days, with little success. I have figured out how to Map a...