network drive

With the computers networks that I install I need all computers to be able to see each other. With XP this is simple. All I need to do is have the same user name and password and workgroup name at each computer. I also create a share on the C drive to all. Then when I go into network places...

We have a Main server in Mumbai through which different people around the world access oue websites. I work in Mumbai and a user sitting in Dubai is unable to access a particular website. This is happening with all the users in that country. We are connected in the following chain VPN - User...

Via the assistance of a program called "SkyDrive Simple Viewer" you can obtain your unique ID for any folder on your Windows Live SkyDrive. With this unique ID, you can easily configure a network drive that's accessible directly from your desktop. Things you'll need are: A Windos (7?) PC...

Hi, When trying to copy a file off a networked drive I get the following error: Error 0x80070057: The parameter is incorrect. This is the second time this has occurred. The first time I was trying to copy 4 files and 3 of them were copied correctly and the other was not. The solution then was...

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...

Hello! I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am logged in as Admin. The network disk is configured in Linksys, that an admin group can r&w...

We have this recurring issue where some mapped network drives disappear from 'my computer'. They usually appear after 1 or 2 reboots, but having to go through this each time is a bit annoying. Right now all our client computers are running windows 7 pro on a 2008 domain server. We've been...

We recently migrated our users from one domain to another. After the migration, 2 users are having problems connecting to their home directories on the network. They get an access denied error message if they try to connect using Link Removed but it works fine if they connect using Link...

In Vista and XP you can you can move your documents that are local and stored to a new target location on a server drive, But Windows 7 talks about about the folders are not index. All I need to do is allow all user to store documents on a network drive so they can used all computer on the...

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION: Linksys/T-Mobile Hot Spot (wireless) ROUTER with Ethernet connections to 1) Home Phone, 2) iMAC PowerPC/OS X Leopard, 3) PC/Windows 7 32bit and 4) IOMEGA HOME MEDIA NETWORK HARD DRIVE (herein "NHD"). PERTINENT SYSTEM STATUS: The NHD contains 1) a "BACKUPS" folder with...

Windows 7 XP wirelss connection problems [SOLVED - sort of] I have a 3 PC network (no WEP or WPA security) attached to a Thomson 760W wireless router with the latest Firmware (6.3.27.2) 2 PCs (Angua and Carrot - dont ask!!) run XP SP3 (all latest updates); 1 PC runs Windows 7 Ultimate (all...

Greetings, I tried to copy a file from a failing network drive to another nework drive, and the copy failed midway. Now when I right click on the destination file to attempt to delete it, explorer hangs. If I left click and press the "del" key, explorer hangs as well, and if I go to the...

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...

Hi, On my FreeAgent 250GB Hard Drive, set up as a network hard drive, I have a folder with 60+GB of movies (avi. mp4. etc) and all of a sudden in turned into a 0KB file. I would really like to fix this, anyone got some ideas? Link Removed

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...

Hi there. I was previously running Windows Vista and have recently upgraded to Windows 7. Previously I mapped a network drive wirelessly to a network media player with a hard drive, and shared video/music wirelessly with my Playstation 3. Immediately following the upgrade, everything was still...

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...

Hello everyone! I installed Windows server 2008 in Virtual Machine and i got Xp client aswell. Problem is that when i log in to server with my client username i can't get network drive for him using logon script. If someone have time to tell me how i can get it working That would make my...

I have two Window 7 peers hard wired thru an SMC. I'm not using homegroups. I can see the public shares on Peer 1 from Peer 2 and similarly I can see the public shares on Peer 2 from Peer 1. However I can't see drives (my storage drives) on Peer 1 from Peer 2. The opposite is also true. Get...

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...