Questions tagged [mapped-drive]
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Copy UNC network path (not drive letter) for paths on mapped drives from Windows Explorer
I frequently want to share Windows network paths to files with other folks on my team via email or chat. We have a lot of mapped drives here, both ones we set up ourselves and ones set up by our IT ...
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Windows 10 forgets mapped drive's credentials after reboot
Why Windows 10 forgets mapped drive's credentials after reboot and how to fix it?
I've seen some solutions but none of them was a fix for my problem. thanks.
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How to show currently mapped drives in PowerShell?
Need a PowerShell command to display drive letter and path it is mapped to.
In other words a command that shows me the same thing Windows Explorer would.
Tried this:
Get-WmiObject -Class ...
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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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How can I retrieve my network drive credentials in Windows 10?
My network drive login information is not showing up in Windows 10 credentials manager.
I have multiple networked drives, and I need to view the login information. How can I look up my own login ...
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Mapped Drive Storage Size Matches my Windows Drive?
I have a couple of drives mapped to a SharePoint site. When I open Windows 10 Explorer and look at the details of my Windows (C:) drive, it tells be there are "4.77 GB free of 66.7 GB".
When I look ...
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How do I map a network drive so that any user that logs in the PC could see it in Windows 7?
I have a PC here that needs to connect to a network drive to receive data. Multiple users will log in with their own accounts to do research with the data from that same network drive. I want to know ...
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Mapped drive is not accessible, to copy files, using Task Scheduler
On my Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, a batch file is scheduled to run using Task Scheduler. For some reason, only a portion of the commands in the batch file are executed; Some MS DOS commands are ...
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Azure File Storage on Windows 7
I have a folder share in Azure file storage that was working beautifully. I have connected several Windows 10 computers using the net use command and it is working without a problem. I had a user ...
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Why isn't File Explorer showing my mapped drives?
I'm using Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
My application (that was run as administrator) maps a folder from D drive to a network drive Z using the Windows Network API wnetaddconnection2().
When I opened ...
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Can Word 365 be made to believe that a shared network drive is NOT the Internet?
I’m continuing to work on an exasperating Word 365 problem that I exhaustively documented in Microsoft’s purported support forum (documenting all of the hardware and software involved) earlier. As ...
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Map network drive - The network path could not be found
I am trying map a network drive from Windows 10 to my Android phone by following these instructions: map Android to Windows drive. I'm running WebDAV server on the phone, but when I try to map the ...
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Adding mapped Sharepoint as a "Trusted Location" in Office 2016 for macro enabled files
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I'm trying to add a mapped Sharepoint Library to Trusted Location in Office for macro enabled files so end users don't have to select "Enable Macros" every time they launch the file. ...
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Listing Mapped Drives and Username Powershell Script
It's been a little while since I've touched PowerShell so struggling to get this working as I expect.
$computerlist = Get-Content H:\MappedDrive\ListOfMachines.txt
ForEach ($computer in $...
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How to remove a partition mapping in Windows
I cloned my system disk to a larger one. Then I removed the original disk. Remaining is the new disk that has the 3 Windows-created partitions (Recovery, EFI System, Windows OS C: - windows 10)
For ...
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Slow to show Open / Save File Dialog in Windows with mapped Network Drives
The issue is that if you have one or more mapped network drives and have not accessed them "recently" within your logon session, your first attempt to show Open/Save File dialog in ANY program will be ...
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Batch file for a refresh of mapped network drive?
Is there a batch file/script that can be used to refresh a mapped network drive on Windows 7? The computer is currently hooked up to a mobile broadband connection (Novatel wireless MC551). The ...
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Computer freezing when accessing network files [closed]
Whenever any application on my computer tries to reach out to files that are on my companies network drive [i.e. not on my computer], it locks up and crashes. This can be as simple as opening up a ...
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Mapped drive security when changing networks?
I have external storage (HDD) attached to my router and made available to computers belonging to this network (wifi). Also, I also synchronize backups automatically to external storage in my router ...
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How to map folder on C: to non existing drive D:
On my desktop PC I have the folders:
D:\documents\Lightroom
D:\documents\Pictures
In order to work with my Lightroom catalog on my laptop, that only has a drive C: I created the folder C:\documents. ...
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Windows 10 always warns about disconnected network drive, even if it is actually connected
tl;dr: Each time system starts, Windows 10 1903 produces a false alert and status about network location not being connected. And does not update this status after location is actually connected. Is ...
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The correct way to redirect user folders to a network location
I run a Windows 2012 R2 server where much of my content is centralized (Photos, music, applications, shared documents, videos etc).
To point each PC to this server I change the user shell folders in ...
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Can't connect to a mapped drive, but can RDP into computer. What could cause this?
I have a Windows Server 2012 computer, and I can RDP into it. Previously I was able to access a shared folder via a mapped drive, but I'm unable to do this now. What could cause this?
the network ...
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How to create a permanent mapped network drive that is visible to "As Administrator"
Mapped network drives on Windows are not visible to programs running "As Administrator". I can open an admin command prompt and map the drive with net use Z: //server/share /persistent:yes, but it ...
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Read/Write simultaneously to mapped network drive (samba file share)
I've been playing around with a home debian server, and so far it basically just hosts a samba network drive that I plan on using to store archived movies/tv shows/podcasts, etc. In the process of ...
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How to locally cache network drive in Windows 8.1
I work remotely and connect to a shared network drive through a VPN. This works great for the most part. However, when there are problems with the connection (either the internet on my end or at my ...
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How to prevent GPO from mapping network drives on my PC?
I'm using a Windows 8.1 laptop I got from my workplace and it's a member of the workplace domain. The IT department at my workplace thinks it's a good idea to enforce mapped network drives for all ...
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Scheduled task works on a mapped drive when configured for Windows XP mode, but not for Windows 7
There is a Windows 7 PC with a scheduled task. The only thing it does is running a VBS file located on a mapped drive that points to a network share:
M:\Folder\Script.vbs
where M: is the mapped ...
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How to map a network drive that is mapped to a PC running Tailscale?
I’ve installed Tailscale and I’ve been able to connect to my work PC from my home PC with RDP. I was also able to map the remote PC's local drives as "Network Locations".
How can I also map ...
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Drive mappings not visible in "net use" or "subst", what kind of drive mappings are they?
A customer is using ExpanDrive for creating network drives. As a result the commands net use and subst don't give any results.
However the command wmic logicaldisk reveals the mentioned drive ...
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Mapping shared drive works from my local machine but not from a Windows Server 2012r2
I have an issue with mapping NAS drive in win server.
I can map it from my local machine, I cannot map it from this server. I have done everything and still cannot get through it.
Server has static ...
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Windows XP will not remember a share's password after reboot
I mounted a mapped drive from a server; it was set to automatically map this on every reboot, and it was set up to remembered the password, and everything was great. For a long time, I didn't have ...
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Mapped Network Drives making Windows 10 File Explorer extremely slow
I have two Windows 10 PCs on a home network. They access each others files via Mapped Network Drives. This basically works very well. However frequently File Explorer often takes a LONG time to load (...
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Prevent users from accessing a folder in a mapped drive
I run outlook backups to the server within my company, I have a mapped a drive to all computers within the company and a folder within it as where the backups go to automatically with the help of ...
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Cannot connect remotely to Z: drive
I am trying to figure out why I can't connect to Z: Drive from home to school.
I was able to connect to Z: drive on my laptop when I was connected to the schools secure connection, but now I am at ...
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Mapped Drive inaccessible from Windows Scheduled task
I am working with python 2.7.9 (64 bit) and windows server 2012 R2
I am trying to set up a windows scheduled task to run a lengthy python script every day. I've managed to by calling the python from ...
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Windows: Expand path of drive-mapped directory to full path
I have some folders mapped as drives on my Win11 machine using the registry key
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices
with string values such as
X:=\??\C:\some\folder
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Can't map network drive hosted on Windows server from Windows client on different network
I am trying to connect to a network drive being hosted on a Windows Server 2022 from my Windows clients on different networks. The clients are Windows 10 Home and Windows 11 Home PCs respectively. I ...
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Endless load in Explorer while disconnected from corporate network
I've got the problem that Explorer is showing the green loading bar (Green Bar of Death) while disconnected from corporate network. It doesn't matter if connected with DHCP and internet access or just ...
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Unable to browse to network shares on same subnet
We recently had a new VoIP phone system installed from Star2Star with brand new Yealink T46S phones, and I've been chasing networking issues down ever since. It started on the day of installation, one ...
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Destination Folder Access Denied - You need permission to perform this action
I am trying to write files to a mapped network drive (from one server to another).
I am trying to write as a user 'opcon' on our 'opcon' server to a mapped drive that is on our image server, and ...
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Filezilla skipping files that are not on physical disk from a mapped network drive
I have a large mapped network drive on my PC and I am recursively uploading its files to an FTP server. The issue I am experiencing is when I select a directory in this drive to upload (recursively), ...
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Copy files from mapped drive to local drive through Task Scheduler
On Windows Server, XCOPY/robocopy/copy from a mapped drive to a local drive works when executed in command prompt or batch.
E.g. z: mapped drive:
xcopy z:\foldername\*.txt d:\test\
But the copy is ...
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Close a file on a network mapped drive
We have some shared folders that we use at work to transfer and edit files.
This is a network mapped drive, not an actual shared folder where we put files in.
Sometimes people forget to close the ...
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Map Multiple network drives windows 2012 domain controller
I have found this script to map single drive and Relabel the Drive:
'
Option Explicit
Dim objNetwork, strDrive, objShell, objUNC
Dim strRemotePath, strDriveLetter, strNewName
'
strDriveLetter = "H:...
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Why are mapped drives available only with admin rights?
I am using Windows 10 pro, version 1607, build 14393.321 the latest available at this date. Some network drives are mapped with domain group policy and logon scripts.
Opening an elevated command ...
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How do I prevent Windows 10 from disconnecting mapped drives?
I have a mapped drive on Windows 10 Enterprise that keeps disconnecting itself, sometimes even when I'm in the middle of doing things using files on that share. I have a desktop shortcut to it; if I ...
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User getting multiple mapped drives for no reason
One of our users is getting a weird issue where multiple mapped drives are being created for the same thing. The H, S and W drives are supposed to be there, the rest are erroneous and are being ...
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Is there a way to map a network drive in windows to point to two locations under one drive name?
When I'm on my home network I have a network drive mapped for my file server. I set up port forwarding on my router and have a static ip address so I can ssh and access my files while away. Is there ...
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How best to manage mapping drive letters?
I have the below configuration on my home computer:
C: Operating system (Windows 8.1)
D: SSD (quick scratch drive)
E: Large HDD (large storage)
F: Optical drive
I: NAS storage directory #1
J: NAS ...
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