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 overlords. What I'd like to be able to do is to…
Ernest Mueller
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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.
Amin Sh
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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 Win32_MappedLogicalDisk | select Name, ProviderName
and it…
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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 can I get Windows 10 to add the contents to the…
Richard
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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 information or back it up?
Machinus
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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 if there is a way that i could map the network…
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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 File Explorer, I couldn't see the Z drive. However,…
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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 at the details of any of the drives I have mapped…
Stupid Clown
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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 ignored.
MS Dos Batch file looks like this:
s:
cd…
ToC
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How can I create a mounting point to a drive, mapped to a network location?
On my Windows-10 computer, I have a WSL (Ubuntu).
The WSL mount command gives (amongst others) the following result:
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C:\ on /mnt/c type drvfs (rw,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,case=off)
On my Windows system, I have a drive mapping to a network…
Dominique
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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 (20 seconds and often much more, sometimes hanging…
drb01
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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 per usual, no luck.
Since that time, I’ve added…
trevbet
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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 drive, Windows says The network path…
CJ Dennis
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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 who is running Windows 7 contact me stating they…
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Adding mapped Sharepoint as a "Trusted Location" in Office 2016 for macro enabled files
Overview
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. Additionally, many of my companies macro enabled files…
mongoose36
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