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Old 14-04-2004, 19:27   #1
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WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
I've got a few PCs in work that are giving me a bit of a bother...

I've setup filesharing on one PC and tried to setup a mapped drive to it...but it freezes the machine once I click on the mapped drive, can't even right click and go into properties.

BUT, if I open up My Network Places, I see the drive share and can navigate no problem...but when I map it...the freezes the PC to the point of having to kill explorer.exe

Any thoughts?
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Old 15-04-2004, 09:12   #2
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
What ver. of windows are both the computers ?

Are they on a domain ?
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
Both on WinXP and no domain, all connecting through a Linksys router.

Normal net access is fine for all machines. Infact this problem is affecting 3 out of 5 machines I tried to map a drive, weird that's it's affecting more than once machine...which leaves me to think the one machine (server2) is having the problems.

But I don't think there's much special on there...I've got a group with assigned users with full permissions on the directory.

I would have thought that if the permissions were wrong then you couldn't see the directory at all. What makes it really weird is that you can see the files no problem, and interact with them, by navigating through My Network Places. But the machine/s freeze when accessing through a mapped drive. The mapping of the drives works as normal, but only freezes when I try to use the map drive.
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
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When you map the drive and then check it afterwards does it have the full unc to the share in it ??
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
does mapping to an IP address rather than machine name make a difference?
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
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Good cause this has really stumped me :( (saying that as you know the icklest things tend to stump me! :monkey: )


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When you map the drive and then check it afterwards does it have the full unc to the share in it ??
Not sure what you mean, when it's a mapped drive windows explorer shows it as:

MyMappedDrive on '192.168.1.201' (T:)

When clicked on it it freezes, but on a normal map drive it the explorer address bar should show:

T:\

When viewing the directory over UNC, i.e. through My Network Places, it shows as:

\\192.168.1.201\MyMappedDrive\
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
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does mapping to an IP address rather than machine name make a difference?
I never do machine name mapping.

I right click on My Network Places and click on Search for Computers...

Then search by IP, which comes back with the machine double click which reveals the shared resources. I right click on the drive and and map, which works.

Then I double click on the new mapped drive and it freezes. It freezes with an hour glass, like it's trying to find it or trying to authenticate, but no timeout occurs, like when you don't have sufficient permissions, the hour glass just stays there, spinning me into an early grave!

As I say I can see the files as I need to via UNC, but I need it as a mapped drive, cause some software needs a mapped drive to work.
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
those examples look correct cas..

(get back on IM mate.. i wanted to pick your brain too)
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
Just had a word with one of my fellow boffins

Make sure that the simple file sharing service is off as this can cause problems of this nature.
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
I've just been told by a tech guy in the office that the network fairies have visited over night and have fixed the problem, whatever it was.

All now work as it should, *phew!

And as the man says...."PCs, who'd have them!" ...how true!
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Arrrg. - Do you know what the problem was ?
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Re: WinXP file sharing - Mapped drive vs UNC path?
No I don't... the who thing seemed odd UNC working but mapped not.

Not really much else to say


Except thanks all who contributed to this thead
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I hate it when a problem is solved and I dont know the cause

If you do find out make sure you let me know !!
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