Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Richard:
Have you tried deleting the HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Mou ntPoints2 key? Larry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cannot mount a network drive Greetings! As a part of a merger, etc, I was "migrated" to a new domain. As a part of this migration I had 3 network drives (big!) mapped to me via GPO. Those drives are in NYC, and I am in Illinois... Consequently, "My Computer" became pretty much unusable until I unmapped the drives. (I had the GPO changed to no longer map these drives for me.) Several re-boots later, here is the current situation ... I would like to mount these remote shares as drives only when I need them. I can mount the drives off one file server with no problem. The other two are on a different server, and here is what happens... I have the local physical drives A, C, D, E, and R (floppy, two SATA hard drives, and two DVD drives). At the moment, I have no USB drives connected. If I attempt to mount one of the shares from the "forbidden" server, I get an error saying the resource is in use. If I remove the string "net use m: " from my command (and paste the rest into an address bar), I connect (but not as a mounted drive). Example: in an address box, "\\nyc01.aspca.local\Shares\InfoTech", I see the directory, files, and all sub-directories. In a command console, "net use m: \\nyc01.aspca.local\Shares\InfoTech" returns the "resource in use" error. However, "net use m: \\nyc04.aspca.local\Shares\presentations" maps the drive. Clues? FWIW, in the registry, HKLM\System\MountedDevices shows a couple dozen entries which begin "\??\Volume{long hex string in brackets}". Then, I see "\DosDevices\A:" (as well as C:, D:, E:, G:, H:, I:, J:, and R:). (No idea what G, H, I, and J are!) Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 [email protected] P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org <http://www.aspca.org/> The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
