network drive

Hey guys I am using robocopy in windows 7 to upgrade users computers. I have it setup to pull users personal documents and such of the old laptop to the new win7 laptop. I do this through the network by setting the old laptops c drive as a network drive z. i use this for robocopy to...

I'm running 64Bit Windows 7 Ultimate using IPv4 and want to map a network drive to my Windows 2008 server. I've tried both mapping to the "default admin shares" i.e. C$, D$ as well as creating my own shares with full access rights to the "administrators group" to which I belong. However...

Hi everyone, I have a weird problem, made a lot of research on the internet without any conclusive solution so i hope anyone could help me. Here is the problem: People in my school have their my documents linked to the map drive F: which is on a data server. For example, When the code...

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 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...

Hi everyone, I recently installed the Office 2010 trial and it insisted it wanted to be installed in drive Q: (a networked drive) but it had no writing privileges. The only way to coax the installer into installing was to remove Q: from the list of connected drives. After the installation, I...

Normally I can create shortcuts in START menu to a file on local harddrives without any problem. However when I want to do this with a file on a volume/network drive which is later (after bootup) mounted then this is NOT possible. When I drag a file e.g. from WinExplorer...

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...

Windows 7 File Search Indexing Options The built-in search feature in Windows 7 is significantly better than the horrible search options in Windows XP. Instead of installing a third-party program like Google Desktop to search for files on inside files on your computer, you can now do it with...

Guys, i have a strange problem in my hands. The problem isn't mapping a network drive. I've successfully mapped and it was working great, until i discovered a stupid but irritating issue: Let's say that i've mapped my folder to the letter E:\ from a local called \\COMPUTER01\DATA, for example...

I have a rather annoying problem in that I installed my network printer, a HP C5180. Once I had finished the installation I noticed that the drive monitor Gadget had dissapeared from my sidebar and in it's place a HP printer monitor one had appeared. I removed the printer gadget and tried to...

Hello to all. This is my first post and mainly the reason for joining, but hopefully not the one for staying in this forum - it appears to be full of rich information. My problem is as follows: I have a hard wired home network setup "joined" by a Linksys router. My main Desktop runs W7 Ultimate...

I got a new laptop today and the dude at the computer store had set up my account which is showing as my name and it says that it the administrator. There is only one user account that I can see. This is my virgin foray into Windows 7. I managed to get it to read the drives on my home...

Hi all; I have a divx reader with hard disk connected by a wireless network to my PC: while I was renaming some folders the network went down and the folders become files, so now are unreadable. Now, when I connect the network drive, in the left column I have 8 folders (instead of the 10 that I...

I have read and followed a lot of posts to no avail. specifically I have followed the advice in "Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP - How-To Geek" and "How to make Windows 7 work with older Windows versions for networking and file sharing" - both machines are in the same...

Hi, I decided to join the forum just for this purpose. I hope someone will be able to help me. Anyway here is my problem: All my computers are running Windows 7 (2 of them are 64-bit, the other 32-bit). A few weeks ago, all of them could see each other just fine. I could access all of them...

I am attempting to transfer large files from my Windows Home Server (Server 2003) to my laptop (Pavillion DV7 Quad Core) running Windows 7 (64) professional via a webdav drive mapping. I get this error when trying to copy a file from the network drive share to my local drive on the laptop. I...

Hi. I have 3 computers under the same workgroup with a Shared folder. Server (Windows 7) User 1 (Windows Xp) User 2 (Windows Xp) User 1 and 2 Have the shared folder as a mapped network drive. Now what we need is: inside the Shared folder there is another folder called Admin which I only want...

I recently upgraded from Vista to 7, and now I am unable to view the files in a network drive. Other network drives, I have no problem viewing, it is just one in particular. When I log on to a machine running either XP or Vista, the drive along with the files all open correctly. The drive is...