Questions tagged [network-shares]
Generally used to share a resource over a network, including files and folders as well as printers or other physical devices
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How to share any folder without password in Windows 8/10 in a home network if a Microsoft account is involved?
My question is: How to set up file sharing correctly, in a home network, with Windows 8/10, so sharing any folder with "Everyone" (File Explorer->Right click on folder->Properties->Sharing->...
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How to configure sharing on a small Windows 10 network since HomeGroup is gone?
This is apparently a common problem but I have not found a solution. With the deprecation of HomeGroup after the release of Windows 10 version 1803, I cannot get two computers to maintain network ...
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How do I mount a network drive to a folder?
Does anyone know of a third party (or even windows native) solution to this simple problem?
I want to map an internal network share on our windows server to a folder on each of the client machines in ...
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Share VirtualBox folders in reverse? Guest-Host?
I'm familiar with the process of installing Guest Additions and sharing host folders with the guest, but is there a way to do the reverse?
I have an XP host and Ubuntu 10.10 guest, with VBox 4.0.2.
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Is there any way to prevent a Mac from creating dot underscore files?
At work we're letting one of our very tech savvy clients actually help out a little with a few development projects specific to him. However, he uses his own personal Macbook, and as he edits files on ...
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Ping to Windows 10 not working if "file and printer sharing" is turned off?
I have one Windows 10 computer on a local network.
When I try to ping the Windows 10 machine from some other computer, it fails (Request timed out). From the Windows 10 machine, I can ping other ...
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Creating a local library with network shares/drives
I think the Windows 7 library feature is great - once you understand how it works, but it's pretty frustrating that you can't add network drives/shares to a library.
I fully understand that in some ...
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Enable (or work around) Administrative shares in Windows 8
So in using Windows 8, I've discovered that the administrative shares are disabled. There seems to be no easy way to get them re-enabled.
Is anyone aware of a work around, or solution?
I did not ...
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Home Network Bandwidth Control
I will mount a home network to share the ADSL internet connection. The speed is 1Mb, but I want that my PC get 75% of the bandwidth and the another PC get 25%.
I know that linux boxes can do it, but ...
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Is it bad to map network drives in Windows?
There has been some spirited discussion within our IT department about mapping network drives. In particular, it has been said that mapping network drives is a bad thing and that adding DFS paths or ...
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How do I connect to a network share via the Windows Command Prompt?
Is there any way to connect to a network share via cmd.exe?
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Can a mapped network drive be reconnected from the command line?
On a daily basis I find myself in the Windows command prompt needing to access a network drive that is mapped but disconnected. I have yet to find a command that will reconnect this drive without ...
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Samba+Windows: Allow multiple connections by different users?
I have a machine running Ubuntu with Samba that I use to share stuff with my family's Windows machines in our local network. Currently they access a share for movies/music/etc with one user.
I want ...
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Make NAS appear as a USB drive
My TV can record to USB-storage, which is quite common. What I would like was to record to my NAS instead, where there's plenty of room and recordings can be shared and managed better. So I'm looking ...
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How do I map a network drive to the root of a server (\\server)?
In Windows XP I can very easily map a network drive to the root of my NAS server. I browse to it in Explorer (\\192.168.1.70), choose "Map Network Drive", then choose the drive letter.
In Windows ...
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How can I make desktop.ini work on network locations?
I've got a simple desktop.ini file that applies a folder icon. It works just fine in a local folder.
I'd like it to work on a network location, as we have an external hard drive connected to our ...
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Windows 7 problem to access shared folder
I have a strange problem with Windows 7 Professional when I am try to access to a network shared folder.
I have a two personal computers:
- pc (A) with Windows 7 Professional, user logged with ...
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Accessing a Windows share with a different username
Is it possible to manually specify the username, in which Windows uses it when connecting to a networked share?
perhaps \\username@host\...
PS: Both the server and clients run Windows 7.
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Make a network drive available over the internet?
I recently built a small server machine, using Ubuntu Server and Samba, to act as a file server (among other things) so that my entire family can access certain files over the network from Windows ...
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On login, how do I get Windows to mount/connect a mapped network drive automatically?
How do you automount an SMB share in Windows 7? When I first login, the drive appears but is not "mounted". It is a mapped network drive, but iTunes will not find the music located on the server until ...
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Can't ping other machines in my network
I've got 3 machines on my network, all running Windows 7.
None of them can ping each other, either by name or IP address. (And because of this, they also can't see each other on the network, can't ...
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Windows refuses to remember network share credentials
I've been tearing my hair out trying to get Windows to remember the credentials to a network share, and almost all attempts were completely fruitless.
I have two Windows machines, one being a media ...
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Windows 7 file and printer sharing doesnt work for me
Until a few days ago I hadn't had any problems, but now I can't use file and printer sharing in Windows 7 but everyone else on the network can.
It is possible I installed some program that made a ...
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Cannot run .exe from Network Drive
I am trying to run an executable file from a network drive on Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) in order to install a program, but, each time I try, it doesn't run and the following message appears:
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How do I stop mapped network drives which aren't available preventing Windows 7 64-bit booting past KSOD?
I have a QNAP server on my home network which I've mapped a few folders in Windows-7x64 using NFS. This works perfectly except for when I switch the server off (or disconnect it from the network). ...
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How do i renable connecting a network drive using SMB1 since Windows 1709
I find today that I can no longer mount my Netgear ReadyNas drive because apparently it is using SMB1 and Windows 10 have disabled since release 1709. This is very problemaic because I need to access ...
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How do I logout of a smb connection on Windows?
I'm connected to a Linux smb share via Samba from Windows and have logged in using account "jim". Now I want to logout of Jim's account and login as "fred", because account Jim has ...
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How to access Guest (Linux) Filesystem from Host (Windows) in VirtualBox
I am trying to synchronize my music between my desktop (Ubuntu 9.10) and my laptop (VirtualBox: Windows 7 host & Ubuntu 9.10 guest) I use Unison to perform the actual sync, which itself is not the ...
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Windows 10 shared folder: Acces Denied (was working before)
I have a shared folder on my Windows 10 Pro (1607) PC that is accessed by a Windows 10 Family (1607) PC. This setup stopped working overnight (a couple of months back), probably because of an update.
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Specific Windows 7 to Mac SMB share rejected,others OK, troubleshooting?
I have 4 machines, three Windows 7, one Mac Yosemite.
All happily share folders except one.
One Windows 7 machine can see all the others & connect to all PCs, but not the Mac.
Mac can see & ...
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How do I change the user I am logged in with on a Network Share?
When connecting to a server via Explorer (not a mapped network drive) even if the "Remember my credentials" check box is not selected, Windows remembers the password until you log out. Is there any ...
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How do I resolve the error "The local device name is already in use."?
I try to map a network resource to my local device.
I receive the following error: The local device name is already in use.
I have the problem to find which purpose the device is used for. I try a ...
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How to access C$ share in a network?
Considering I have admin access to a machine, how can I remotely access the default C$ share in Windows XP and Windows 7?
Edit: This is not a domain, it's a single machine that I need to access
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Disable Windows 7's "Open File - Security Warning" dialog for exe on network drive?
I have a mapped network drive, on which I store some programs, one of which I've put in my startup folder.
Unfortunately, this program "does not have a valid digital signature", which means that ...
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Can my landlord access my personal network because he controls the upstream connection?
Can my landlord access the things on my personal router's network because he controls the upstream connection? For example: the DLNA on my NAS, a public file share on my NAS, or the media server ...
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Disconnecting / logging out from Windows network share without restarting Workstation service
I have a file server running (SMB) that I connected to in Explorer (Windows 7 Professional) by visiting \\1.2.3.4 directly. I logged in as one user, without saving credentials, and now wish to log out ...
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Clients can't create symlinks on Samba share
As recommended in many answers to questions about samba shares and symlinks, I have tried explicitly enabling "follow symlinks" (although documentation says it is on by default) as well as enabling "...
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Windows 10, can ping other PC but cannot access shared folders! What gives?
I have a computer running Windows 7 that shares a Git repo on drive D. Let's call this PC "win7". This repo is the origin of a project that we push to and pull from.
The network is a wireless network....
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Hide user from login screen without deactivating it
I have several network shares and created user accounts for the people who want to access them on my computer, so I can give every user different access rights.
My only problem is, these users are ...
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How can I share a printer on Windows 7 x64 with Windows XP x86?
I'm trying to share a printer that's on Windows 7 64-bit with Windows XP 32-bit.
I've tried:
Using the Add Printer Wizard on XP
Selecting network printer
Browsing for the printer and selecting it ...
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Why won't my mapped drive persist for elevated user after reboot?
This is related to this issue: Command Prompt in Administrator mode doesn't see mapped drives
I'm needing to run a program (InstallShield) as an elevated user, but this program also needs to ...
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Windows 7 changes my account name... except it does not. How do I REALLY change my account name?
I created a new standard user account named dm500hd-ag1 on a Windows 7 Ultimate PC. The name of the host computer is ag1 so I thought I would add that in the name of the user account name.
Then I ...
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How do I get Windows 10 to index mapped network drives?
I have three network drives (S:, U: and Z:) mapped to a Synology NAS. They are all online and read/write accessible.
Without installing additional software or making the files available offline, how ...
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creating symbolic links on networked drive
I'm trying to better organize my public folder at work and I need to maintain old links that I have emailed to people in the past. I'm thinking of creating symbolic links so that I can maintain those ...
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Logging out of a network share drive without reboot?
I have a small script that runs on each workstation which runs defrag and chkdsk and connect each workstation temporarily to a network share that they, normally, do not have access to. The command I ...
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Disconnect from smb share with powershell on Windows 10
I'm trying to disconnect a smb share with a Powershell command in Windows 10:
net use * /delete
However, this command does not work, because the share is not shown with net use. The output is There ...
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Turn off administrative share on Windows 7
I have removed the administrative shares, but the shares are re-enabled after rebooting. I have also tried the editing the registry as described in this Microsoft forum post, but it's also re-enabled ...
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Play video from SAMBA share on Android--Any shared volume from Linux or Windows
I use Ubuntu12.10 with Gnomeshell.
Installed latest version of samba share, configured to share my Video folder, access restricted via login (uid and password needed).
SMB share accessed via Solid ...
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Remotely close open shared files
I have a Windows 7 computer that is hosting some files in my network. Sometimes a file (usually an Office document) is stuck in the open state even after a user has finished editing it. What I do to ...
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Can't map to second share on remote computer
PC1 & PC2 are both running Windows 7 Professional. 64-bit & 32-bit respectively.
PC1 contains a secondary internal HDD, as D:\
PC1 also has an external HDD as E:\
D & E are shared on ...
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