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Mapped drives have to be manually expanded to work

Dec 8, 2011 9:38PM PST

OS is XP Pro, SP3. I have two mapped drives, both of which are mapped to drives on Win 2003 servers. The mappings are set up to connect using a different user name and to reconnect at logon.

When I boot up the computer the mapped drives are present, but I'm unable to save anything to them unless I first go into Windows Explorer and click on each drive to expand it. If I try to save before doing that, I get a "path not found" error.

Does anyone have a way around this? It's a minor annoyance but I'd love to do away with it.

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"The mappings are set up to connect using a different user"
Dec 9, 2011 1:22AM PST

It is time to correct that. As security patches come down, this is likely to break. Fix that name issue.
Bob

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Unfortunately I can't
Dec 11, 2011 11:19PM PST

Company security rules require server logons to be different than our local Windows accounts, with different rights, etc.

Do you think that's the reason for it? If so, I'll contact my company's Help Desk to see if it's documented there.

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This will fix itself.
Dec 12, 2011 1:14AM PST

I've seen companies have such policies and eventually they fix such things because the calls for support or a security patch breaks it.

There must be some thousand ways to create a bug like this. Most of them involve doing something a little off beat. And you can bet that someone wants all these off beat, might break if you do this DOCUMENTED.

Bob

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(NT) I'll open a ticket. Thanks, Bob.
Dec 12, 2011 4:57AM PST