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Joe

Some helpful stuff here but I am still having an issue. The PC I am trying to map to does not have a pwd (it’s blank) and I can’t get by Win7 asking for it. Any help appreciated.

Anonymous

I need help deleting references to a mapped drive that does not exist anymore
I can’t right click on it in my computer because it’s not there. However at startup each time I get an error message that it can’t connect to the mapped drive – duh!

PYNTEMA

Can I also map a subdir in the same system.
eg C:pic will be mapped to f:

Ciprian

You can but it is more complicated: you need to share the “pic” folder with the network and then map it as a network folder and specify there: \your computer namepic.

PYNTEMA

I have tried this, it initially seems to work, but then I get an error that the new drive letter is not accesible.

forrestoff

subst f: c:pic

Vinster

My problem was cross domian drive mapping. This was the fix for us.

Local security settings prevented mapping drive.

Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy
– Expand – Security Settings – Local Policies – Security Options
– Find: Network Security: : LAN Manager authentication level, set to: Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated

bytemon

As I read this article, it seems to infer that you can map an FTP site to a drive letter. The article reads: “To map a drive to an FTP site, you first need to select the drive letter” I don’t believe this is possible – at least not possible by following these instructions. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

You are correct. We have removed the misleading piece of text. Thank you for highlighting this.

Anonymous

Deleting a mapped drive which you no longer have access to is a head ache.. tried the gui after explorer hung for several minutes then got the program is not responding pop-up, and even tried

net use t: /d

at a command prompt, finally had to re-map the drive to a connection that did exist then remove it…

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

This tutorial describes all your alternatives for deleting drive mappings: How to Delete Mapped Drives in Windows 7.

Art

What if I have two sets of credentials for the same site? For example, I have a personal account and we have a team account for AutoCAD WS (https://dav.autocadws.com). I set up a shortcut to my account, but there is no way to get it to prompt again for another set of credentials without deleting from credential manager and rebooting as far as I can tell.

haeh

i would change the capital letter (X: for exemple) to a smal one, llike (x:).
what can i do this please ?

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

You cannot do this. Drive letters always have uppercase letters.

Adhish

Thanks!

Ivy

This was extremely helpful and straightforward. Thank you so much!

karatedog

Mapping a drive letter to an FTP does not work. Clicking that link “Connect to a Web site that you can use…” simply jumps to the network mapping window, you can even close the drive mapping window.
If you finish the procedure, you will have the connected network drive but without any letter.

Larry

This was very helpful, worked perfectly. The network drive we needed to access was in a new system running Windows 7 Home Premium and the desktop trying to access it was running Windows 7 Home Basic.

This all happened because we replaced and old workstation (starting to have issues) that was used as a file server with a new Optiplex 790. Workstations running XP were able to map to the drives on the new system with no issue and we’ve now cleared the hurdle with the desktop running Windows 7 but we are having a very similar problem with trying to map these same network drives to a computer running Vista Home Basic.

The system running Vista Home Basic mapped to the network drives when they were in a system running Windows 2000 (I told you it was old) without any issues, baffled why they won’t map now. The problem is clearly related to an issue with the user-id we are using. We can see the network drives on the network but we are not being allowed to access them. We have seen lots of information online about this issue but we haven’t found a fix yet. Anybody know the answer to this riddle?

dreamlahiru

Tnx u so Much…..

Bill Zimmerman

This appears to create a named shortcut to the ftp, not map to a drive letter… too bad

bambo Kunene

i’ve shared the folder to map from but the mapped drive doesn’t show on the other computers

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Why don’t you map the same drive on all the computers where you want to access it?

Samantha

You, sir, are a life saver! After spending hours upon hours reading Microsoft forums, only your advice was able to help me. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

sager

you can easy map new drives by shortcut to:

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL Connect

Mitch

When in the “Specify the location of your website” window the “View examples” link does not work. Nothing happens when you click on it?

arun

hi,
i have made mapped network drive to among 5pc’s(xp and win7), now i have mapped the network drive in Admin account, so that i cant see the mapped drive when i enter into user account there are 50 users, so that i can’t create map network for each user. please do reply for problem….. thanks…

Batcher

you could make a text file using notepad with one line saying
NET USE Z \serverpath /PERSISTENT:YES
(use the server and path that applies to your situation)
Then change the .txt extension to .bat and put it on a USB stick. Each user can then run it in his own account from the USB stick.

Mark

I use a Comcast Broadband Gateway, well say that this network is called ‘Home’. connected to the home network I have multiple pc’s connected. I also have a Linksys E2500 Router connected to the Home Lan Network. Connected to the Linksys Lan Network I have 1 PC and 1 Network Storage device. I would like to Map from a pc on the Home network to the Storage Device on the Linksys router Lan. The Pc on the Linksys Lan is Mapped just fine to the storage device because its on the same network, I cant seem to connect anything from my Lan named Home to my Linksys Lan. Is it possible to do this?

Vijender Kumar

Hi All, I need to access a network drive using FTP command. I’ll already map the drive in my system locally.
Please Help.

superlimpet

you omitted ‘Websites’

Chris

First off, the title is completely misleading. This DOES NOT map an FTP connection to a drive. It adds it as an explorable location (e.g NOT a mapped folder or drive, but merely a location that can’t be accessed by other programs) unlike what the title says. Also it’s super straightforward to do in Windows 7, unlike what you suggest at the bottom.