Using MDT, cannot map a specific network drive

I built a system using the Win7 64-bit DVD, installed a few applications. Tested opening a server in question.
Then ran Sysprep and Capture and saved the image as a WIM. Put that WIM in a task sequence and installed on another machine. Now that server cannot be mapped at all. However, other servers in our network environment can map fine. What
could it be that after the sysprep, and then deployment, could prevent it mapping to a single file server? Any suggestions will be helpful as it's driving me nuts.

Your writing makes it a little difficult for me to understand, but perhaps, and I'm only guessing here, the 'Apply GPO pack' step in the "State Restore" group spoils the game here. Perhaps the GPO settings have caused a lock-down of this system in question?
What have you tried? Firewall disabled, or modifying the network center "Changed Advanced Sharing settings"?The settings that can be found there are mainly responsible for the visibility of a server.
Pres command prompt and type "net use" to see if any drive mapping has already been made, and is blocking the access..
If this post is helpful please click "Mark for answer", thanks! Kind regards

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Cannot map a domain network drive. Unknown anomaly

Dear Technet!
I have a very annoying problem. We a have a Win2008R2 domain. Many domain client desktops and laptops, and some "out of domain" laptops. The problem is connected to the last ones. Everything is fine to map a shared server folder, because everyone
has a domain access instead of the client is domain or out of domain PC. Of corse I have to set manual the out of domain PC's network drives.
BUT we bought a Fujitsu Lifebook P Series laptop with Windows 7 Professional (it is an out of domain client) and I confronted with an anomaly.
When I manualy want to map a network drive it not change the domain!
The steps:
-Right click at Computer-> Map network drive
-I selected the Letter and type the shared folder: \\server1\folder1
-NOW it is ask the authentication process BUT
Normaly when I type the username with domain mydomain\username it should change the PC's name to the domain name like: JoeysLaptop --to--> MyDomain
And the problem is here. It NOT changes, and I cannot map the drive, because it say cannot find this path. In every else W7Pro laptop its working fine, but this one. Internet connection working. Pings are working, DNS working.
I checked the firewall settings, the services, the sharing center (public and home&work) file and printersharing and the networkscan is ON, the NetBIOS over TCP/IP is ok. So I am out of ideas. The other laptops are working fine with mapping, but this
one. Same OEM Win7Pros like this, but this is not working.
I do not realy want to reinstall with corporate windows, but that is my last option.
What settings are wrong and where should I search it?
Can anyone help me?
thank you,
Árpád Juhász

Hi,
Are you able to connect to or access that network drive or shared folder? When you map the drive, make sure the computer you're trying to connect to is turned on and you have correct permission to perform this action.
Or try to use net use command to map the drive and check if it works.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg651155.aspx
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

Error message when mapping to a network drive of a DFS share on Windows 7

Hi,
We are getting the following error when mapping to a network drive of a DFS share on Windows 7:
“The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred:
A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated."
In our case, the user logs on his workstation using his regular domain account, then maps to the network DFS share using the service account of an application.
There is a fix from Microsoft (MS KB968264). But this fix requires disabling the "Network access: Do not allow storage of credentials or .NET Passports for network authentication” property. This is against the Microsoft own best practices (Network access:
“Do not allow storage of passwords and credentials for network authentication” should be set to
ENABLED), and is NOT acceptable for us for obvious security reasons.
Question: Does anyone know an alternative fix to this issue that does not introduce security risks?
Thank you in advance!
Mdjona

Again I have tried this, but in my program if I try to save to the a drive when no disk is inserted, the JOptionPane i want to display is not coming up.
the system prints out
java.io.FileNotFoundException: A:\image.jpg <The device is not ready>
If that makes any sense to you

LR library cannot be on a network drive ... only when using Windows?

The technote
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333660
describes a lock file for the library when using Macintosh.
According to the technote for Windows there should be no need for a lock file because no concurrent use of LR should be possible and LR refuses to create/access a database at a network drive.
What about Macintosh? Can the LR database be at a network drive when using Macintosh?

>"Can the LR database be at a network drive when using Macintosh?"
NO!

Powerpoint 2013 throwing 'File in Use' errors when saving to a network drive, file is NOT in use

One of our sites is having a strange issue when saving to a network location in Powerpoint. I'm not sure it's a Powerpoint problem, but it's a place to start...
When saving a ppt to a mapped network drive (the client is running Windows 8 / Office 2013, the network drive is a DFS share, pointed to a Server 2012 machine if that matters), users will almost always get the following error:
"Someone else is working in (filepath\name) right now. Please try again later."
This happens regardless of where the file is being saved on the network drive, in fact it happens even when there is no pre-existing file with that name in the location. So, even if I'm saving a brand new copy of test.pptx to F:\Share\PPT where there
is not currently a test.pptx, I get the error.
Word, Excel, and all other tested apps save properly. Powerpoint can save correctly to the local computer, but not to the network drive or to My Documents (which redirects to the same network drive).
When the error pops up, if I look in Open Files in Computer Management on the Fileserver, I see the file I'm trying to save listed as being open, but it shows 'Disconnected' rather than a username.
Any suggestions would be appreciated - again, not sure that this is a Powerpoint problem - could be Windows 8 or some mysterious DFS thing...
Thanks.

Hello,
Been having a very similar issue in our environment and just came across this thread while Googling and looking for answers.
In our case, we have Windows 7 clients and 3 main files servers - 2 are Server 2008 R2, and one is Server 2012. We use PeerLink File Collaboration to sync the files between
the servers (similar concept to DFS).  For us, it seems to happen specifically with Excel 2013, and only when saving to the Server 2012 file server. I can reproduce the message pretty much every time. After seeing your post,
I tried it in Powerpoint just out of curiosity, but it saved properly - Word saves properly as well.
Been doing a bunch of testing to try and narrow it down, and this is what I've found:
Excel 2013 -> Server 2012 = error message.
Excel 2013 -> Server 2008 R2 = no error message.
Excel 2010 -> Server 2008 AND Server 2012 = no error message.
<o:p>We've been leaning towards the PeerLink replication as the culprit up to this point, but last night I did some testing with the PeerLink Collaboration turned off, and
still received the error message.. so now I'm even more confused!
I see that it's been a few months since your post.. have you made any progress here?</o:p>

NSS6000: unable to map as a network drive in Win7pro

I have setup my NSS6000 through the web browser interface (setup RAID5, created a volume, created a share (using CIFS protocol), and created a couple usernames). Now I am trying to map my share as a network drive and it is not working.
I select Map a Network Drive in My Computer, select a drive letter, enter its ip address as "\\192.168.0.xxx" in the folder line, and check the boxes for "Reconnect at logon" and "Connect using different credentials"
After entering all this info, a logon screen appears asking me for a username and password. I enter the username and password for a username I created through the web interface. After a few seconds, the logon window reappears. I try my username/password again, this continues 3-4 times and then finally it says "Windows cannot access \\192.168.0.xxx"
I have gotten error codes of 0x80070035 (The network path was not found). Also, when I select "Diagnose" after getting the "Windows cannot access" popup box, it sometimes tells me "The device or resource (192.168.0.xxx) is not set up to accept connections on port "The File and printer sharing (SMB)"."
I can see the device in the Network window of My Computer (listed under "Other Devices" as NAS00xxxxxxxx). I can also continue to access it via the ip address through the web interface.
Some things I have tried:
entering the MAC address instead of the IP address (\\NAS00xxxxxxxx) as the folder
entering \\192.168.0.xxx\nas as the folder (nas is the name of the share I created)
entering my username as both "NAS00xxxxxxxx\username" and just as "username"
entering my adminstator login credentials for the web browser interface as the username/password, as opposed to a username I created within the web interface
Not checking the "Connect using different credentials" box
I can't believe this is so difficult. Can anyone help me solve this? Thanks

Thanks for the tips - here's what I did and the results
Created a new username on through the web interface; changed the hostname to "nasbox"; rebooted the NSS6000; rebooted the pc while the NSS was booting; logged on to the pc with a generic username (not admin or administrator)
tried again to map it as a network drive - specified \\192.168.0.xxx\nas as the folder name (again, "nas" is the name of the share I created on the device), selected the checkbox for "Connect using different credentials". Clicked finish, box for username/password pops up. I enter the new username/password I created - same result. No joy.
Results from nbtstat -c:
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [10.0.1.xx] Scope Id: []
No names in cache
Local Area Connection 2:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.abc] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table
Name              Type       Host Address    Life [sec]
192.168.0.xxx <20> UNIQUE          192.168.0.xxx       407
NASBOX         <20> UNIQUE          192.168.0.xxx       467
The 10.0.1.xx connection is my internet connection; the 192.168.0.abc is the address of my second ethernet card which connects to my managed switch (which the NSS6000 is connected to)
Results from ping -a 192.168.0.xxx
Pinging NASBOX [192.168.0.xxx] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.xxx:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
I couldn't find a button to enable logging, but I did find a page of logs (I'm guessing this is a firmware change) - here's the one called "CIFS Logs" - the timestamps from 23:02:13 are from the reboot; the ones from 23:04:32 are me trying to map it as a drive (I assume...)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] smbd/server.c:main(944)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: smbd version 3.0.28a started.
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2008
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 1] nsswitch/idmap_tdb.c:idmap_tdb_alloc_init(397)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(750)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred!
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 1] nsswitch/idmap_tdb.c:idmap_tdb_alloc_init(397)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(750)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred!
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 1] nsswitch/idmap_tdb.c:idmap_tdb_alloc_init(397)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(750)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred!
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 1] nsswitch/idmap_tdb.c:idmap_tdb_alloc_init(397)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(750)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred!
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(130)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-1-0 with passdb backend
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(130)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-5-2 with passdb backend
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 1] nsswitch/idmap_tdb.c:idmap_tdb_alloc_init(397)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(750)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred!
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 1] nsswitch/idmap_tdb.c:idmap_tdb_alloc_init(397)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap uid range missing or invalid
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(750)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[3342]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred!
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox smbd[3851]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(130)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-1-0 with passdb backend
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: [2011/05/02 23:02:13, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(130)
May 2 23:02:13 nasbox winbindd[2571]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-5-2 with passdb backend
May 2 23:04:32 nasbox nmbd[2562]: [2011/05/02 23:04:32, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(109)
May 2 23:04:32 nasbox nmbd[2562]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.0.xxx for name WORKGROUP<1d>.
May 2 23:04:32 nasbox nmbd[2562]: This response was from IP 192.168.0.abc, reporting an IP address of 192.168.0.abc.
((note that 192.168.0.xxx is the address of the NAS; 192.168.0.abc is the Win7 pc))

Using the iPad to access a Networked drive?

Greetings,
Has anyone any experience using an iPad 2 to access a networked drive?
I have a iPad 2 with the newest release of iOS. I am using a app to access my laptop. The app works well at this, but I'd like to access a networked drive that I use for all the computers in my home (all running Snow Leopard).
I use a LaCie D2 (which I have learned may not be compatible with Lion, but that's another story...) which is connected directly (ethernet 10/100) to a wireless router. I use this drive to store iTunes and as a backup drive for 3 computers in my home.
The D2 uses a "network manager" application on each computer to mount shares, the D2 is partitioned in such a way that there are 2 "shares" for each computer, a "common share" which is the same for all computers and a "private share" that is specific to that computer. Using the Network Manager I create shares on the D2 by creating "user profiles" (actually each "user profile" is a specific workstation/computer). When the computer starts up, the Network Manager loads and the shares appear. The NAS device has its own IP address.
The iPad does not have a "network manager" app. Instead I am using a file sharing app from ITunes. The app works pretty well in accessing my laptop (using it's IP address). I would like to use it to access the networked drive too.
Has anyone successfully used their iPad 2 to access a networked drive?
The problem with the LaCie D2 with Lion is of concern. Looking toward the future does anyone have recommendations for using a different Networked drive? If so, what drive and manufacturer?
Thank you,
Tim Kern

No, you cannot print from your iPhone. Not yet. Let Apple know if you think this would be a good feature:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Cannot print file to network drive.

Hello...I've searched the forum and have not seen this specific question. My company recently upgraded to Windows 7 and we use Acrobat X. When we print from something such as Outlook, Word, notepad, etc., then select Adobe PDF as the printer...then select the location to print to as a network drive, it always fails. The printer icon has a yellow sign with an exclamation point, and when you open the printer properties, it just says "Error printing". If you select a local drive, such as C:\temp, it works fine. It's not a permission issue, because I have full admin rights, and it still fails. We have multiple users trying to do this, and it's the same for everyone.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This part is not working when you choose a location other than a local disk.
opening document to print > selecting adobe pdf printer > saving file to network drive > print
The job sits in the print queue, stating an error and I not been able to determine what the error is.
What I did just find out that worked is using the Acrobat Office addin "Create PDF". I am running office 2007.

Can two computers use same iTunes library on a network drive?

Can two computers use directly (rather than share) the same iTunes library on a network drive?
My media library is on a network drive attached to my Airport Extreme. Right now I share the library with my desktop Mac. I can share fine, but I would like to be able to add, delete, and make other changes in the media library from both computers. The two computers would not be accessing the library at the same time as I am the sole user of both.

I appreciate your input and I think you're right about this being impossible. But just to clarify, you say I can't "have multiple machines accessing the same music files from a shared location." I can have multiple machines accessing the same music files from a shared location--I just can't have them accessing the same music files simultaneously--which may have been what you meant. For my situation, I think it will be less work to just quit iTunes on my server when I want to run it on my client (using Chicken of the VNC). It's not ideal, but it's less time-consuming than periodically syncing three computers.
Again, thanks for the input.

Can I use my mac mini as a network drive on my wireless network?

I would like to redeploy my Mac Mini to be a network server drive off of my Airport Extreme router? Is this possible? Is it difficult? How do I do it? Thanks!

Yes, you can use your Mac mini as a network file server. The mini can be connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) by either Ethernet or wireless to share files to other network clients.
Please see the following Apple Support article for details on how to configure your Mac for file sharing.

OVI Suite STILL cannot sync to a network drive

What is the point of having a support forum when everything gets ignored!
What is the point of having a feedback system when it all gets ignored!
I tried to select a network drive to sync photos and videos to but it wouldn't let me! I google it only to find that in this same forum, the question has been asked and AN EMPLOYEE from Nokia suggested they'll add it. This was over 10 months ago and still in this new version, nothing has been done on that front!! I still cannot select a network drive to sync photos and videos! I can't sync to the local drive cause frankly, the space available on the N8 is more than on the local drive!!
For how long will you go on ignoring us like this???
I have been a passionate defender of Nokia since 2001 till literally 5mins ago when after downloading the new OVI suite, a simple task like syncing contacts crashes OVI time and time again.
I can't select a network drive to sync to, all my support posts for the N8 have so far been ignored!!
Do you guys actually have any software testers in the company?? Why is it that anything to do with software, you get it so horribly wrong. Whoever is running that bit of the company needs to be fired and new brains brought into the mix!
I love Nokia as a company as they're full of ideas and potential but the software guys will spell doom for you! If something so simple like syncing contacts can be missed and the software is allowed to be released to the public with that very obvious bug!! Can't you just have it so things JUST WORK?!?!
My N8 is riddled with very simple and obvious bugs that I don't know how it passed. e.g screensaver not coming on when you lock the phone - you have no idea how annoying this bug is. Also for some reason, all my widgets are now about 20% bigger meaning the contents don't fit within the confines of the widget space and information is cut off!!
I am so **bleep** with the whole company right now I'm on the brink of just throwing it all away and saying goodbye to Nokia for ever!
But fortunately, my hatred for Steve Jobs is even more and can't be bothered with Android!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SORT ALL THIS NIGGLING THINGS OUT!!!

you can find the path in the windows registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nokia\Nokia Ovi Suite\{D995DE8A-1556-45a3-BC7A-568E63663F25}\PcPath]
or just search the registry for the path shown in the 'Photos folder location' shown in the ovi suite.
or search the registry for the value 'photos path'

How do I use Time Machine to backup a network drive

Let me clarify up-front... I DON'T want to use my NAS as my Time Machine backup drive. I want to backup my NAS to another drive using Time Machine. Here is my current configuation:
iMac 27" with 2TB HD backed up to a Firewire Drive using TM. I swap out an exact duplicate of that drive once-a-month and keep one of these drives off-site for disaster recovery.
I want to add a 3TB NAS drive for all of my media. But I'd like to backup ALL of the media on that NAS the same way that I backup the iMac, with TM -- routinely swapping out 3TB backup drives and keeping one off-site for disaster recovery.
In a perfect world, I could do this in the cloud. But transfer speeds and cost preclude me from choosing that option.
Here are my questions:
1) Can TM work on the 3TB NAS, standalone, to allow it to backup to that set of new 3TB backup drives?
2) I currently have a brand-new Hitachi 3TB HD in an older PowerPC Mac Pro. Could I fire that up and share it on the network as an NAS? I know I could run TM off of that configuration. But, I think that I would be compromising speed and performance vs. the new NAS drives out there. Am I wrong? Also, I'm not sure if that configuration would allow me to stream reliably as a UPnP server.
I know it's a long-winded request, but I would really appreciate the insight of others who have possibly solved this problem. Thanks!

Time Machine will only back up internal and directly connected external drives. It will not back up a network attached storage device. You'll have to use some other software to back up the NAS.

Using a iTunes Library on a network drive

I would like to have my itunes library on a external HDD plugged in to my airport extreme and have all my macs use this common library for itunes.
I have copied the itunes folder to the drive and pointed all of the itunes to use this as the default library but it is not working the way I would like it to.
When i close itunes on any of the computers it goes back to using the default library,
What am I doing wrong?

When you copy the content to the network volume, do you copy the media, or the iTunes library files as well? If you copy the library files as well, then you can delete them from the local computer, and when you open iTunes the next time it should tell you that it can't find the library and give you the option to locate it. Just point iTunes to the copy of the library files on the network disk and you should be fine.
One thing to keep in mind is that in doing this, you can not have 2 computers attempting to access the iTunes library at the same time. Perhaps this is what is happening that is throwing your computer back to the "default library".

Cannot map or even see drives on xserve RAID hanging off a xserve

Sorry if I sound like a complete idiot, but when it comes to Macs I am one. We have a OS X Server 10.5.8 and a xserve RAID. The RAID looks ok and under the server I can see both of the RAID drives that have been created and access them. When we try to map to it on one of our house Macs, its errors out with "There was a problem connecting to the server." When we try to map to just the root of the server, we can see its hard drive, but not the RAID drives. Any help would be most appreciated!

By default, Mac OS X Server only shares the root drive.
In order to share external volumes (such as the XServe RAID volumes) you need to use Server Admin to mark the volumes as shared (as well as which protocols to use).

Network Drive Mapping for users who have Port 445 (possibly others) Blocked by their ISP to a Server 2008 system

Nice to see my original posts are still up. I was hoping that in the ensuing time someone had found a solution. At least I can now see many other posting the same problems. :) Thought I was losing it for a while.
We have 100% proven that the problem (in our case) is from the ISP blocking port 445 (possibly others but 445 for SURE) with the reasoning that it prevents the spread of some Internet "worms". It also just happens to prevent people who work
from home from being able to map to their network drives at work.
What I was hoping was that eventually someone would comer up with a solution for this short of having to load a server using a different OS from Windows. The SMB protocol is the one needing port 445 as far as I can tell. Not all ISP block
port 445 and the laptops that use those ISP's have no problem. Unless they travel.  Then it is "hit or miss" as to whether the ISP for the Hotel they stay at blocks it.
I have run multiple tests to prove that this was in FACT the problem. Even the particular ISP in question which is a very large national ISP company freely admits they do this supposedly to prevent the spread of an unnamed Internet Worm. It also
happens to prevent Business use of their Internet by Home Subscribers at they cannot map to their Business Servers which also need port 445 to map.
I have used WebDAV successfully to get around this but at a huge loss of speed and performance. Cloud services all do essentially the same thing and all have pretty much the same loss of speed.
If anyone has come across a method of allowing a drive mapping to be rerouted to any other port, that is the only hope I have short of changing to an alternate OS for the Office Server and even then I cant be sure until I try if it would help. I read
somewhere about the possibility of routing through a proxy but again, the problem would still be that the requests for mapping are expected on port 445 on the server and they will not get through even to the proxy since the originating ISP is the one blocking
the port from the User's system.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated I have posted this question now for several years with no one yet providing a working solution. Hope burns Eternal though :)

Yes, OwnCloud is an option as well as many others. Even self hosted Cloud services such as the WD MyCloud all work. The problem is speed. JungleDisk is the best I have found so far. I am not sure exactly what they use to allow the
drive mapping but it seems to work faster that anything else I have found.
VPN's don't work. At least none of them I have tried. I can connect a VPN with no problem. But still cannot map a drive over it.   Actually, there are some issues with the VPN as well but these are just a matter of methodology.
Mapping to the FQDN works for some people while others require the public IP. Some users on some ISP's can map using the FQDN, others have to map to the IP. That in itself was a bit odd.
I have tried every trick I could find including adding the IP and/or FQDN to the Windows Hosts file on the server as well as on the client systems. This actually did help to get the VPN to connect in some cases. However, it still would
not allow me to map a drive letter.
I can create a Network Place, This also works. But it will not allow me to MAP that "network place" to a drive letter. I have tried multiple utilities that allow mapping of Drive letters to almost anything but they wont work to map to a
Network Place.
The software that needs the mapped drive is a SQL database which runs on port 2004. The program itself has no problems at all connecting to the server to run the database. Even on systems which cannot map to the needed drive letter for the documents
referred to in the database.   Users can run it and look up all kinds of material but it it is only a half-solution since the database refers to files stored in a "common-mapped" drive letter. Which I cannot Map.
I have tried every possible configuration of the VPN setup I could find, I have even tried a "Test System" with the NIC connected directly to the T1 Modem. With all firewalls off and no AV software. Even if that had worked, there is no
way I could run like that. But it didn't. Same issues. All this did was put the blame squarely on the User's ISP which was the only reason I did it. I had to rule out even the slightest chance that it was something in our equipment.
This was already almost a certain fact since the same user could take their laptop to a WiFi Hotspot at a fast food restaurant and connect as well as map the drive. As soon as they went back home, no drive. On the ones I could convince to pay
the extra charges, if they switched to a business connection from their ISP, No Problems.
On most MiFi or other Cellular Internet devices, No Problem, Although that had a habit of changing. We had a few that worked for a while, then they got a software update for their MiFi which immediately blocked the ability to map. Others
it would be that some models of Cellular HotSpot units worked while other would not work even if both came from the same carrier.
Coincidentally, we had none of these problems before two other events occurred:
One was the release of Server 2008 R2, (which was a kid of "surprise" change for all of us used to Server 2008 R1. Welcomed changes, but not expected with a simple SP release.
The other was IPV6 finally became a reality: June of 2012.
This left us with much head scratching as to what was the real cause of the problem. It took months to narrow it down to port blocking by the Outside ISP's with a 100% certainty. Even tried reloading a system with Server 2008 R1 just to rule
that out. As well as disabling IPV6 on every network device. The problem stayed with the User when Outside and which ISP they were connected to.
Currently we are using a mix of normal VPNs for those who can run them, and CLOUD access for those who can't. Even this is problematic since we have to keep both the local copy and the cloud copy in constant sync so that everyone sees the same versions
of the same files on each one.
Sorry to make this so long but I wanted to cover everything to show that we tried it all. The only thing left short of getting the ISP's to remove the port blocks would be to find a way to route the SMB file requests around port 445 in some way.
I have been told that this is easy enough if using a file system other than Windows but that is not an option even if true.
Thanks for the updates and ideas. I keep hoping that eventually there will be some secure method for mapping a drive letter that does not depend on having port 445.

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