Strange Network Drive behaviour

[Tightscot]

Hi All

I'm having a strange problem with an XP Pro pc. It has a mapped network drive (J: ) pointing to a share on the server called stuff. So therefore i can browse my comp and access "J:\stuff" ... good.

The strange thing is that at Random i will suddenly have one or more network drives pointing to "stuff" but labelled Y: or V: or Z:, in fact mapped as pretty much any letter.

Now i can right click these and disconnect and Voila, they disappear. But in time they reappear. I have all the latest Spacks/hot fixes etc etc, run full (up to date) Anti Virus and several Spyware scans - All Clear. Nothing shows in Event logs etc, and apart from this annoyance the machine runs perfectly.

Any one come across this, Google is not helping me at the mo.....

Nope, that's a new one on me. Very bizarre.

[Tightscot]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Nope, that's a new one on me. Very bizarre.

me too - i mean i could understand if it was Halloween, but that was yesterday!

How many other mapped drives do you have and does this only happen when you insert a pendrive for instance?

[Tightscot]

The PC only has the one mapped network drive. It happens totally at random, no pen drives etc are ever used on the machine, it has A: C: D: E: and J: .....