Re-Map drive letters on Windows 7 in bootcamp...

Hello computer geniuses....
I have an early 2008 macbook pro running Mountain Lion and Windows 7 via bootcamp.
My problem: My job requires that I constantly conect to dropbox to share projects with co-workers. Recently we changed the drive path for dropbox from the c: drive to the d: drive.
So... Is there a way to create a D: drive in a windows 7 bootcamp partition? Or, is there a way to install windows 7 via bootcamp with D: as the drive letter instead of C:
Thanks everyone

This is how to do it but read the CAUTION below before proceeding!!!!
In Windows you need to go to
Control Panel
then open
Administrative Tools
In Administrative Tools select
Computer Management..
You now need to go to Storage and open
Disk Management
After Disk Management opens you'll be able to see all your Drives represented.
Find Your C: Drive and Right Click the C: Drive
A Submenu will now open up.
Select Change Drive Letter and Path
You now can select the Change Button in that window.
Another window opens and select
Assign The Following Drive Letter, click the arrow key and select D: as the new drive letter.
OK everything and when you reboot the C: Drive will now be Drive D:.
CAUTION
BE AWARE THAT IF YOU HAVE INSTALLED ANY APPLICATIONS ON THE C: DRIVE WINDOWS WILL BE LOOKING TO FIND THEM ON DRIVE C: WHICH NO LONGER EXISTS.
Window will display an error message about the Program being MIA and ask you to locate it for Windows.
You will have to browse to the program so Windows can find it.

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I would use Parallels or VMWare and use the second drive to hold the virtual machine. That way the VM only uses the space that it needs and you can still use the remainder of the drive for other things, not to mention that you would not need to reboot to run windows.
Also Time Machine does not back up a boot camp partition.

Little Known Fact About Mapping Drive Letters

It's easy enough to create a shared folder on one computer and map a drive letter to access the folder on a different computer. Usually the mechanism behaves flawlessly with a hiccup here and there. But, did you know, that a logged on session has two sets
of drive letters? It's true. You create drive letters whilst not running as administrator and you access those drive letters whilst running as not administrator. But, the moment you run as administrator, those drive letters vanish without a peep of explanation
from Windows. However, you are free to create drive letters as administrator and access those drive letters as administrator. I'm sure there is a very good technical reason for this. Something about a security token being different between the two states.
But that does not forgive whoever is responsible for warning the end users about this.
MARK D ROCKMAN

you are correct when you log on even as administrator your rights are still a user, when you attempt a task that requires the administrator privilege you are elevated to that level, if you have UAC turned on you would see the box come up. this is to inform
you that you are now running under administrator privileges, this is by design, this is also what happens when you run the command prompt as a administrator. It's mostly for security reasons imagine a virus or a program being able to launch a elevated
command and basically taking over the networks shared information simply because you opened a command prompt wit admin rights.
Microsoft has many people that keep saying "how come I can do this and access this" they then publish their findings and the malicious software people take advantage of the security hole so they have to patch, you shouldn't be mad at Microsoft
"I don't work there" be mad at the people creating malicious code.

Mapping Drive Letters

I have OS X Server 10.4.8 running in a school with all Windows PCs. I'm trying to figure out how to get the PCs to authenticate to the OS X server and upon logging in, map several share points on the server to drive letters on the clients (PCs). I know WGM offers a place to map the home directory, but what about other share points and drive letters.
I'd like this to happen automatically like through a login script or something.

In the OS X Server's /etc directory, you will find a netlogon directory. It is the default location for login scripts if you are running a Windows domain.
The script for which you are looking will look something like this:
net use Y: \\WINDOWSSERVERNAME\SHARENAME
This command will mount the Windows sharepoint on the Windows server you specify to the Y: drive on the client machine. Just save this command into a text file : /etc/netlogon/login.bat
If you have multiple shares to mount, just use the same format with different drive letters in the batch file. If you learn some Windows scripting, you can do fancier things, like clear out existing drive mappings before mounting the network drives.
There is a spot in Workgroup Manager to set the Windows login script for users at the individual level, if you want to mount different drives for different people.

Mapped drive duplicating in windows 8.1

I upgraded to Windows 8.1 a little while ago and have run Windows Update recently. For the most part, things seem to be working fine.
One issue that I have noticed is that one of my mapped drives keeps duplicating. This seems to happen after every restart, or shutdown.
I have Hyper-V set up and I mapped drive T:\ to a folder on that drive. It has been working fine for a year.
After getting the latest update for Windows 8.1, when I go into File Explorer, I will see that drive listed as all other available drive letters as well as drive T:\.
I can disconnect them, but it is a pain to have to do that over and over - I cannot map other drive letters to other folders if they are in use. I need to do that periodically for testing client issues.
I have searched the forums and did not find any open threads for this.
It is a standalone workstation that is networked with other computers but it is not on a domain. This is the only other computer I use all the time that has Windows 8.1 installed.
Please help.

Hi,
You can try clean boot to determine if a 3rd party software causes this issue.
If this is not the cause, I suggest you modify the registry value of mapped drivers to see if this issue persists:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Map Network Drive MRU then delete the duplicated drive path.
If this issue persists, please try another user account for test.
Regards,
Yolanda
Yolanda
TechNet Community Support
No 3rd party software is causing the issue.
I went to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Map Network Drive and there is only the default, nothing else.
There are no other user accounts on this machine.
mjmart61

Creating a symlink directory on a network share to a path below a mapped drive letter, local path, or UNC path does not work

Am I correct in assuming I can not create a `symlinkd` to a network share, local path, or a UNC path on a network share that will be accessible by clients?
###Mapped drive letters don't work:
1) navigate to a network share:
pushd \\windows2008server\share\
2) make a hardlink:
mklink /d test_sharedir t:\directory\
dir .\test_sharedir
#Directory of Z:\test_sharedir
#File Not Found
UNC paths don't work:
1) navigate to a network share:
pushd \\windows2008server\share\
2) make a symlink:
mklink /d test_dirunc \\windows2008server\share
dir .\test_dirunc
#Directory of Z:\test_dirunc
#File Not Found
I can create a functional `symlinkd` on a local drive to a mapped drive letter or a UNC path.
Are my assumptions above correct?
We are in the middle of a migration and have created two symlinkd to UNC paths for shared DLLs, one below c:\windows\system32\ (directing to a share containing 64-bit DLLs) and one below c:\windows\syswow64 (directing to a share containing 32-bit DLLs).
On the file server, we have had a path to 32-bit DLLs (from Windows 7 clients: s:\dll\). I am attempting to rename this directory so that it is accessible via "s:\dll32\" and would like to create a symlinkd that links "s:\dll" to
"s:\dll32" [again where S: is a mapped drive on a Windows 2008 server]. How do I do this?
Thanks,
Matt

Hello Mandy,
The link you sent me is for Netapp CIFS server daemon contained within DataOnTap (the Netapp OS) to follow symlinks. I am inquiring about the Microsoft products Windows Server and Windows 7.
To gain a better understanding of the Microsoft Windows Server and client (Windows) CIFS stacks and interaction of the stacks, I have referred to Figure 6 "Server Message Block Server Model" within the following (albeit older) document: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8/0/2800a518-7ac6-4aac-bd85-74d2c52e1ec6/tuning.doc
You will see the following:
I assume that the Windows Server CIFS server service must be "smart enough" to determine that a CIFS client is attempting access to a SYMLINKD and actually fill the request by following the SYMLINKD. The CIFS server service does not appear
to operate like this.
1) Am I correct in my assumption that the CIFS client (redirector) and the CIFS server (server) do not following symbolic links (whether they be file or directory)?
2) If not, how do I submit a feature request for this so that it can be reviewed and approved or not approved for inclusion/hotfix release?
Thanks for your time,
Matt Brown
[UPDATE]
Note that you can use a `directory junction` instead of using a SYMLINKD, to link to LOCAL resources (source). However, `directory junctions` do not allow access to resources over UNC.

Mapped drives automatically disconnected

Hi,
Having a bit of an odd issue with a Windows 2012 R2 server mapping drives to a Windows 2008 R2 in a RDS environment.
I have setup the mapped drives in GPO with the replace option and reconnected ticked.
When I login with a user account, the drives all have the Red X, which causes us issues with applications trying to run from them, or utilize the drives, if you go and click on them in windows explorer they map fine.
If I manually map a drive, log off and back on same red X. Now if I do this as a domain admin, they drive seems to stay connected.
So I thought id add the users to local admin to test, no difference. I have tried to disable all my GPO so nothing is getting applied to this server and same issue.
have tried this command on the file server
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
Updated the registry with the as per:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684#appliesto
have also tried the linkconnections regkey
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0
now pretty much out of idea's may have to log it with MS, but thought id see if anyone has had a similar issue.
Thanks,

Hi,
Would you please tell us that does this issue also happen on other servers?
In addition, are there any related warning or error messages logged in the Event Logs?
Best Regards,
Amy
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Scipt to prompt and authenticate users to AD and then map 2 next available drive letters to 2 network shares

Hi,
So I have been trying to write some code that will
prompt users to authenticate to AD and use that authentication to map the next 2 available drive letter to two network shares.
I have adopted using the HAT format as this provides me with the ability to prompt for a username and password and authenitcate to AD.
<script language="vbscript">
Function setSize()
window.resizeTo 350,300
Window.moveTo (screen.width-240)/2, (screen.height-600)/2
End Function
Function cmdSubmit_OnClick()
Dim strUser 'User Name variable
Dim strPW 'User Password variable
if auth.username.value = "" Then
msgbox ("ERROR: No User account information provided. Please Try Again!")
cmdSubmit_OnClick = False
Elseif auth.password.value = "" Then
msgbox ("ERROR: No User account information provided. Please Try Again!")
cmdSubmit_OnClick= False
Else
strUser = auth.username.value
strPW = auth.password.value
Authenticate strUser, strPW
End If
End Function
Public Sub Authenticate (Byref strUser, Byref strPW)
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION = &H1
Const ADS_SERVER_BIND = &H200
Dim strPath 'LDAP path where the Users accounts are listed
Dim LDAP 'Directory Service Object reference variable
Dim strAuth 'Parses the User Name and Password through the DSObject
strPath = "LDAP://fanzldap.au.fjanz.com/rootDSE"
Set LDAP = GetObject("LDAP://company/rootDSE")
Set strAuth = LDAP.OpenDSObject(strPath, strUser, strPW, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION Or ADS_SERVER_BIND)
If Err.number <> 0 Then
intTemp = msgbox(strUser & " could not be authenticated", vbYES)
if intTemp = vbYes Then
'window.location.reload()
End If
Else
For Each obj in strAuth
If obj.Class = "user" Then
If obj.Get("samAccountName") = strUser Then
msgbox ("Success! " & strUser & " has been authenticated with Active Directory")
window.close()
Set wShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
wShell.run "Firstletterali.vbs"
End If
End If
Next
End If
End Sub
</script>
<head>
<body style="background-color:#B0C4DE">
<img src=Title.jpg><br>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME="User Login"
BORDER="thin"
SCROLL="no"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
WINDOWSTATE="normal">
<title>NAS Authentication</title>
<body onload="vbs:setSize()">
<div class="style2">
<h3>NAS Archive Authentication</h3>
</div>
<form method="post" id="auth" name="auth">
<span class="style3"><strong>User Name:  </strong></span>
<input id="Username" name="Username" type="text" style="width: 150px" /><br>
<span class="style3">
<strong>Password:     </strong></span>
<input id="password" name="password" type="password" style="width: 150px" /><br><br>
      
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="cmdSubmit" />
<input type="button" value="Exit" onclick="self.close()">
</form>
</body>
</html>
using the above I can succefully authenticate users but I cant work out how to then use that authenticattion to map the next to available drive letters to a network source.
The code I have for that is
Option Explicit
Dim strDriveLetter, strRemotePath, strRemotePath1, strDriveLetter1
Dim objNetwork, objShell
Dim CheckDrive, DriveExists, intDrive
Dim strAlpha, strExtract, intAlpha, intCount
' The section sets the variables
strRemotePath = "\\mel\groups\Team\general"
strRemotePath1 = "\\mel\groups\Team\specific"
strDriveLetter = "B:"
strDriveLetter1 = "H:"
strAlpha = "BHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
intAlpha = 0
intCount = 0
err.number= vbEmpty
' This sections creates two objects:
' objShell and objNetwork and then counts the drives
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set CheckDrive = objNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives()
' This section operates the For ... Next loop
' See how it compares the enumerated drive letters
' With strDriveLetter
On Error Resume Next
DriveExists = False
' Sets the Outer loop to check for 24 letters in strAlpha
For intCount = 1 To 24
DriveExists = False
' CheckDrive compares each Enumerated network drive
' with the proposed drive letter held by strDriveLetter
For intDrive = 0 To CheckDrive.Count - 1 Step 2
If CheckDrive.Item(intDrive) = strDriveLetter _
Then DriveExists = True
Next
intAlpha = intAlpha + 1
' Logic section if strDriveLetter does not = DriveExist
' Then go ahead and map the drive
'Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " exists: " & DriveExists
If DriveExists = False Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
strDriveLetter, strRemotePath
call ShowExplorer ' Extra code to take you to the mapped drive
' Appends a colon to drive letter. 1 means number of letters
strDriveLetter = Mid(strAlpha, intAlpha,1) & ":"
' If the DriveExists, then it is necessary to
' reset the variable from true --> false for next test loop
If DriveExists = True Then DriveExists = False
Next
WScript.Echo "Out of drive letters. Last letter " & strDriveLetter
WScript.Quit(1)
'Sub ShowExplorer()
'If DriveExists = False Then Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " Has been mapped for archiving"
'If DriveExists = False Then objShell.run _
'("Explorer" & " " & strDriveLetter & "\" )
'If DriveExists = False Then WScript.Quit(0)
'End Sub
On Error Resume Next
DriveExists = False
' Sets the Outer loop to check for 24 letters in strAlpha
For intCount = 1 To 24
DriveExists = False
' CheckDrive compares each Enumerated network drive
' with the proposed drive letter held by strDriveLetter1
For intDrive = 0 To CheckDrive.Count - 1 Step 2
If CheckDrive.Item(intDrive) = strDriveLetter1 _
Then DriveExists = True
Next
intAlpha = intAlpha + 1
' Logic section if strDriveLetter1 does not = DriveExist
' Then go ahead and map the drive
'Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter1 & " exists: " & DriveExists
If DriveExists = False Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
strDriveLetter1, strRemotePath1
call ShowExplorer ' Extra code to take you to the mapped drive
' Appends a colon to drive letter. 1 means number of letters
strDriveLetter1 = Mid(strAlpha, intAlpha,1) & ":"
' If the DriveExists, then it is necessary to
' reset the variable from true --> false for next test loop
If DriveExists = True Then DriveExists = False
Next
WScript.Echo "Out of drive letters. Last letter " & strDriveLetter1
WScript.Quit(1)
Sub ShowExplorer()
If DriveExists = False Then Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " Has been mapped for archiving"
If DriveExists = False Then objShell.run _
("Explorer" & " " & strDriveLetter & "\" )
If DriveExists = False Then WScript.Quit(0)
End Sub
Now the above script will find the next availabe letter and map one location to it...I still havent worked out to create another loop for it to do it again. It obviously also requires that you already be authenticated to map to that location.
I looking for some help on how to marry these to scripts together.
Thanks
Ali

Hi Ali
Here is some code that will enumerate two free adjacent drive letters. It starts searching from "C" all the way to "Z" for two drives letters that are adjacent and returns the results in an array then echos the results. You can easily adapt this code to
map your network drives to each drive letter. Hope that helps
Cheers Matt :)
Option Explicit
Dim objFSO
On Error Resume Next
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ProcessScript
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Quit
End If
On Error Goto 0
'Functions Processing Section
'Name : ProcessScript -> Primary Function that controls all other script processing.
'Parameters : None ->
'Return : None ->
Function ProcessScript
Dim driveLetters, driveLetter
If Not GetFreeDrives(driveLetters) Then
Exit Function
End If
For Each driveLetter In driveLetters
MsgBox driveLetter, vbInformation
Next
End Function
'Name : GetFreeDrives -> Searches for a pair of free adjacent drive letters.
'Parameters : adjacentDrives -> Input/Output : variable assigned to an array containing the first two free adjacent drives.
'Return : GetFreeDrives -> Returns True if Successful otherwise returns False.
Function GetFreeDrives(adjacentDrives)
GetFreeDrives = False
Dim drive, driveLetter, drivesDict, i
Set drivesDict = NewDictionary
driveLetter = "C"
'Add the drives collection into the dictionary.
For Each drive In objFSO.drives
drivesDict(drive.DriveLetter) = ""
Next
'Check drive letters C: to Z: for two free adjacent drive letters and set the "driveLetter" variable to the first one.
For i = Asc(driveLetter) To Asc("Z")
If Not drivesDict.Exists(Chr(i)) And Not drivesDict.Exists(Chr(i + 1)) Then
driveLetter = Chr(i)
Exit For
End If
Next
'If two free adjacent drive letters were not found then exit.
If driveLetter = "" Then
Exit Function
End If
adjacentDrives = Array(driveLetter, Chr(Asc(driveLetter) + 1))
GetFreeDrives = True
End Function
'Name : NewDictionary -> Creates a new dictionary object.
'Parameters : None ->
'Return : NewDictionary -> Returns a dictionary object.
Function NewDictionary
Dim dict
Set dict = CreateObject("scripting.Dictionary")
dict.CompareMode = vbTextCompare
Set NewDictionary = dict
End Function

DFS and Windows 7 x64 strange behavior when trying to access a DFS link through mapped drive

I've manually mapped a network drive (Q Drive) to a DFS location. Whenever I go into "My Computer" and open the Q Drive it shows the DFS links but when I double click one of the links it randomly takes me back to the "My Computer" starting point showing my standard drive letters. If I click through the Q drive and the DFS several time it all of the sudden works. Sometimes this circle of clicking can go on for 5-10 times before it works properly.
I'm running the x64 edition of Windows 7. Any suggestions on how to make this work properly? Its very annoying.

GPO mapped namespace where you can't connect through the mapped drive letter but can connect through the DFS UNC namespace? Do you use access based enumeration?
I personally think it has something to do with network bandwidth, the security token and offline files. =)
You can access the namespace itself but not any of the linked shares (try checking the ACL:s on the shares and you get permission denied, but you still see them, ie they are listed).
I found a post sometime ago about corrupted/trunkated security tokens. If the member was part of too many AD groups the token was trunkated and corrupted. That was going to be my next move. Sniff the traffic and see what actually happens when the issue occur
if theres something to be learnt there. Since it works correctly through the UNC adress but not through the drive letter you ough to be able to see what is different between the two requests.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/05/14/troubleshooting-kerberos-authentication-problems-name-resolution-issues.aspx
One thing I noted was that it only happened to remotely connected computers on slow 3G connections (we use Direct Access). Never on LAN-connected computers with GB access or remote computers with fast (>15Mbps) access. We also use folder redirection,
which I think could be part of the problem, ie the share never goes online, atleast for us the issue was itermittent, it never happend all of the time, just from time to time. And if I disconnected and reconnected it could fix the issue for that particular
sessions, usually it didn't but occasionally it did (just pulling the network cable and put it back). Check the offline/online status the folders show up as offline even though they are online.
Enough of my ramblings. Sorry to hear you still have the problem and I hope you find a way to solve it.

When logging on to Windows 7 user gets a second mapped drive to the users home folder

Morning,
I'm working through an issue we've discovered whilst trialing Windows 7. Our environment is setup as follows.
Domain Controllers are Windows Server 2003
Clients are Windows XP and Windows 7
Windows XP and Windows 7 Clients are in seperate OU's
All Windows XP Group Policies apply to Windows XP And Windows 7 clients, Windows 7 policies are then applied to Windows 7 clients after
Windows 7 policies are setup such that any setting defined in a Windows XP Group policy is left unconfigured in the Windows 7 Group policy and only new Windows 7 settings have been set in Windows 7 Group Policies.
We have users home folders mapped in their Account Directory account setting and set to H:\   to connect to
\\domainname\dfs\home\username
In addition we also as a fail safe map the drive via a login script using net use
This has worked fine for years in windows XP, if Active Directory failed to map the drive for any reason then the login script would then map the home drive.
In Windows 7 we have noticed a curious error. We found after a period of a couple of weeks we suddenly started getting a new drive mapped. This was identical to the H:\ drive mapping but was instead under drive Z:\. In other words, the
users home folder is mapped twice on h:\ and z:\. This is not affecting any of the Windows XP users.
I have gone through several logic reasons to ascertain why this has happened with the following findings.
1. Originally we thought the error appeared when we tried out mapping the home drive using the mapped drives functionality new in Windows 7 group policy under preferences > windows settings > drive maps. However, after forcing it to delete the
Z:\ drive using this functionality we only succeeded in removing it with a group policy present to do it. As soon as we removed that group policy the Z:\ drive came back
2. Secondly i thought the reason we would be getting a z:\ drive when we haven't specified it anywhere is because active directory is trying to map to the H:\ Drive but it is already present therefore in Windows 7 it tries to map to a different drive.
Using Windows logic it tries the highest letter first which is unlikely to be in use i.e. z:\. This makes sense because our logon script uses a net use h:\ command to map the drive and i believe by default these are set to perisistent. Therefore
the next time the user logs on H:\ is already mapped so the logic in Active Directory accounts maps the drive to Z:\ instead hence we end up with two mapped home drives. To test this i altered the login script to set the drive maps to
non persistent using persistent:no. The logic here was that when the user logged off the drive would become unmapped so that when Active Directory tried to map the drive it would be able to use H:\. Unfortunately this was not the case and
Z:\ remains.
3. Here is where i resolve the issue but i don't know why and is the bit i need answering. If i go into my account on Active Directory and go to Profile and set the home folder drive letter to another letter i.e. change from H:\ to U:\,
i get prompted to set full control etc and apply. I then set the drive back from U:\ to H:\, again i am prompted for setting full control which i accept.
NOW when i login i no longer receive a Z:\ drive and only get an H:\ drive. YAY, thats what i want, however, i do not understand why this is the case. At first i thought it might be something in the active directory logic when i login to an XP
machine and then login to a windows 7 machine.  IF you bear in mind that although i get a new profile in Windows 7 i still retain the same home folder setting. However, after logging on an XP machine logging off then logging
on a Windows 7 machine i still didn't get the Z:\ drive back.
I have tried creating a new user that ONLY receives our Windows 7 Group Policies and still they receive both an H:\ and a Z:\ drive which rules out the Windows XP policies conflicting with the Windows 7 policies.
Does anyone have any ideas why i would get a second drive mapped to Z:\ logging into Windows 7 on a Windows Server 2003 domain?
Can anyone explain in more detail exactly how the Active Directory functionality works when you specify a connect to Drive letter for a users home folder?
My current workaround is simply to add a net use command to remove the Z:\ drive. I do not want to use Mapped Network drives using the new policy settings in Windows 7 RSAT because we have already found issues with it.
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We had the exact same issue happen to us. No issue on Windows XP but Windows 7 mapped two home drives (F and Z). F was mapped during the login script and Z was being mapped by some unknown reason.
We use Netapp for our storage and home drives and use a feature called CIFS Home Drive Mapping. This essentially maps a user to a folder not available through normal CIFS methods causing AD to error when setting the home drive. To get around this we use
dsquery and dsmod to modify this attribute in the user account. This is the command we used...
dsquery user -name %UserNameX% | dsmod user -hmdrv F -hmdir \\filer\$username$
Notice there is no ":" after the F
We determined the root causewas the value for the
homeDrive attributefor the user account was set to "F" instead of "F:"
When we updated our users to reference "F:" instead of "F" in their user, this problem was resolved.
Use LDP or some other method to verify that the homeDrive attribute is set to "F:" (or any other letter) or you will have this issue.

Windows 7 64bit indexing network mapped drive

Hi people,
I've spent a lot of time with windows indexing on mapped drive. But without result. I've tried install hotfix, but nothing happens, Add-in works only for 32bit system, but I use 64bit. Using of symbolic link in library is without result too. I don't know,
why MS released add-in only for 32bit. Could you help me, how to solve this problem?
Thanks

Hi,
Have you tried the methods in following thread?
How do I get windows 7 to Index a network mapped drive?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/afb904c1-1c61-4aae-b6b1-5cf525b9f8de
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Media shares auto mapping drive in Windows 8.1 Pro

What setting in Windows 8.1 is causing the automatic mapping of several shared folders named media?
I work in a university environment with staff, faculty, and students using wired and wireless networks. I have a user with a Surface Pro 3 that has started to automatically map, what seems like random addresses on the wireless network, to file shares
named media. When I setup these computers for the users I always have the media sharing turned off and I've never had cause to use it myself so I'm only a little familiar with what the settings do. I've tried to change my own settings to reproduce
the problem but I can't seem to find the correct setting so that I can reverse it. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,

Hi Pete de Pistola,
If your machine keeps reconnecting to a map drive, from driver path you should be able to track down which machine is shearing folder. Also since it is a Wifi network we wonder if users could use their own device which is not configured by administrator.
As I know to prevent file sharing, group policy might be the only option.
Enable or disable File Sharing with Group Policy
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754359(WS.10).aspx
Regards

Software install in Windows 7 doesn't see mapped drives

I've looked through the related topics that came up when I started to write this, but I am not sure they answer my questions fully.
I am trying to install software on a Windows 7 box as the Administrator. My mapped drives are fine, I can see them and they are not dropping off to the middle of nowhere. What is happening though is that when I attempt to install software, the only thing
that is showing is my local drives, not my networked drives. My work around so far is do it via UNC.
Is there an easy fix for this or do I have to continue with my workaround of doing installs via UNC?

Hi,
I would like to confirm that does this issue occur on all the software you tried to install?
You may try to
disable User Account Control (UAC) to test the issue.
If it does not work, I also would like to suggest you enable NetBIOS to test the issue.
1. Click "Start", input "NCPA.CPL" (without quotation marks) and press Enter.
2. Right click on the connection that you use for the local connection, and then click "Properties".
3. Click Continue button to verify the administrator permission.
4. Click to select "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)", and then click "Properties".
5. Click "Advanced" button in the open window. On the "WINS" tab, click to select "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP", and then click "OK" to save the setting.
If the issue persists, I also would like to suggest you disable the antivirus program and test the issue in
Clean Boot.
What is the result?
Regards,
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4.0EA3 : Unable to access mapped drives (Windows) in file browser dialogs

All File Browser dialogs only allow access to by local C: (hard disk) and D: (DVD) drives. It is not possible any more to access mapped drives (which are referencing UNC paths to our file server) - i.e. Network drives.
I have tried the following accesses to the File Browser:
File -> Open : Does not work
File -> Data Modeler -> Open : does not work
Tools -> Preferences -> Environment -> Log -> Log Directory -> Browse : does not work
This worked/works fine in SqlDev 3.2.2
I tried to rule out connection/authentication problems to our SAN (the network drives are fully accessible from Windows Explorer and even JDeveloper 11.1.2.2.0) - I created a drive mapping to a share on my local hard disk. Can't see this mapping from within SqlDev either
Problem occurs on Win7 64-bit
Looking forward to Oracle feedback or to see if other users find the same issue
Alan

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2daepPy6k7nbGl4d2xobFJFVTg/edit?usp=sharing
Hi Jeff
Many thanks for your reply.
No - the location drop-down only shows my C: (Hard Drive) and D: (DVD Drive).
With further playing, I did find that if I qualify a script on a network file share with the full UNC path, it successfully opens the script.
The problem is that I cannot navigate to locations on mapped drives.
Having successfully opened a sample script, there is now a shortcut to the folder/directory of my shared scripts in the left pane of the open (file browser) dialog box. Its a good workaround.
I have shared a screenshot on my Google Drive (this forum does not allow insert of images or attachments ?)
Alan

Windows 7 network issues accessing shared/mapped drives.

I have three Thinkpads running on my home wireless network. Two are running XP. One - a new W520 is on Windows 7-64. I have no issues with the XP machines. The Win7 machine is having problems with the wireless network connection. It's not that I lose the network - the status is connected with a good signal. The problem is when retrieving or saving files from my server (running XP with shared/mapped drives) I get errors reading and writing files. Just opening the shared drive in My Computer on occasion displays nothing, as if it knows the drive is there, but can't read it. Sometimes it displays the folders but then will take an extremely long time if I try to open a folder. Another issue is if I try to print, the job rarely completely sends to the printer. If I plug in directly to the printer via USB, the file prints.
This has to be an issue with Windows 7 and something in the wireless setup, doesn't it?
I've searched for solutions all over the network. It seems this is a common Win7 problem with no well defined solution. I've had the issue since the very first day, but today, I'm just about ready to backrev to XP after losing 2 hours of work on a Photoshop file!
To date (over the last month) this is what I've done:
Disabled the IP6 stack.
Turned off power management to shutdown the wireless card.
Updated to the latest Intel drivers for the Ultimate-N 6300 AGN adapter (direct from Intel.)
Today, I ran this, netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled but still have the network drive issue plus am having issues browsing web pages. It's getting worse instead of better.
Anyone familiar with this issue on a Thinkpad with known solutions or recommendations?
Thank you!

Hi
Thanks for Your Post
You may need to Disable UAC On Windows 7 . Please refer Below Link for more Details
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624
Hope This Helps
Cheers!!!

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