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Server OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 64-Bit Client System: Windows 8.1 64-Bit We operate a small office setup with a server and about 8 clients. The network drives we access have always been compressed: under HDD Properties>General Tab: 'Compress this drive to save disk space' is checked...

I know this should probably go in the networking subforum but it's kinda deserted and I need an answer fast. I have a 2012 R2 server (alone) and a Win 7 station. My login script is very simple, it's only a few net use commands (net use :G /delete - net use :G \\Server\Folder). But right now...

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...

I setup successfully a remote cloud storage as WebDav network drive. In WinExplorer it appears WITHOUT a drive letter !!!) as webdav.mediencenter.t-online.de I can read and write from that drive. Now I want to disconnect/remove that drive from WinExplorer. The "usual" method is to go to...

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...

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I have an NAS (Network Attached Storage) but I recently set up. (It replaces the old NAS I left turned off for three years. The drive is unchanged from the old machine, it simply has a new machine around it.) There are a lot of zip files I have stored on it. Every one of them, if I dry to...

I have an issue, i have just started a Windows 7 Migration Project and i was originally brought in to do GPO, now i have bene asked to do something else and i am a little stuck. Basically we still run Windows XP on most of our machines but will start migrating over to 7 soon. We run a batch...

We are in the process of rolling out Windows 7 Pro machines, into a brand new network. All users have an S: drive and are supposed to be saving all their data there for server based backup. How do I make Win 7 save to S: by default, move the Libraries to S: and therefore protect the users...

I am new to Won 8 and am frustrated beyond belief. MS - Stop changing things and let us alone (XP and Win 7 were great)!! I have successfully mapped two NAS drives, but I cannot perform a :"save as" from screen shot or "Save web page" because the pane that pops up refuses to show the mapped...

I have a computer that I'm punishing, so I installed Windows H8 on it. I did the H8.1 (for lack of a better word) update. I want to be able to move files and folders to and from the D drive. With XP it's incredibly easy, I just go to the drive I want to share and click share. Done. With Windows...

whenever we login in windows server 2003 , network drive get disconnected .only if when we right click on shortcut of software installed in network drive it get again mapped. we have tried several tricks: net config server :autodisconnect =-1; net use \\conquesr-srv\v440 even than drive doesnot...

I used to map a NAS drive on my Win 7 Pro 32 bit machine. Now the mapping is no longer available. I go to the "Map Network" and the letter is GONE. I can still access the NAS HDD via "network" in the Windows explorer. but I have links constrcuted around that drive letter. HOW DO I DELETE AND...

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I am running Windows 7 64 bit. I have 4 network external drives attached to my router via 2 Cisco NSLU2 servers. The drives connect when I boot the PC but after a while (it seems random) the drives just disconnect. I can click on my computer and bring the drives back one at a time. This is...

Hi folks this is an annoying puzzle for me. I have 64bit windows home premium and the firewall blocks local network discovery and options to enable file sharing and media streaming. I am using a home network, when i go to allow a program through there is no option for file and printer service...

I have a Netgear WNDR3700 router (v4) which I got a couple of months ago to replace my dying router. It comes with a ReadyShare USB to Network device portal which allows me to hook up a USB HDD and use it as a network drive. The speeds aren't all that fast, but, for my current purposes it suits...

Hello all, Perhaps you can help me with a tricky windows 7 issue. I have a user with a laptop, they have been set up for offline files with their data being stored on a network drive. They've been using it away happily for several months then suddenly in the last few days their offline data has...

hi, im tring to connect "My Book Live" WD network drive. i did as order by connect the network cable to my router and downloaded the setup software that has no option but clicking next after the cable connection. in the instruction it says that the drive light need to by solid green and...

I've done a search and found plenty of posts where a harddrive is no longer shown under My Computer. My problem is that it is all of my hard drives won't show in My Computer. So this tells me it's probably not all of the power/sata cables all at once. When I restart my PC they reappear...