Re: Invisible mapped network drives
From: Cyberbear (cyberbear.matter_at_antimatter.starband.net)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:47:55 -0600
Rolf wrote:
> At our firm we run about 600 workstations, mainly clients connected
> to Windows 2000 TS, but lately several run Windows XP Pro
> workstations. Our problem is that the mapped network drives
> (\\server\homedir$\username mapped to o: and so) on seems to be
> invisible in the Explorerer. If we specify "o:" and other mapped
> drives directly in the address bar, the drive is shown as it should.
> This strange behaviour happens on Win XP only; 2000, 2000TS and 98
> work fine. The drives are mapped in login-scripts with "net use ...".
> I've poked around Technet, MSDN, Google but no clue. I thought maybe
> enabling "open folders in separate process" would work, but no good.
>
> Help, any?
>
Doesn't the $ in the share name indicate that it is a hidden share?
Try re-creating the same shared folder without the $ in the share name and
see if it is visible.
> Cheers
> Rolf
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