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Win 7 Drive Mapping
Hi
I'm hoping this is a simple one to answer, and apologies for my possibly dumb question.
I'm running a Readynas Ultra 4 Pro, I have four drives/shares mapped to a win 7 machine. I can access the shares/mapped drives fine, and I have them set to reconnect at login, however after rebooting the drive mappings, in Windows Explorer show with a red cross, however if I click on one it appears to be mapped with file/folders listing correctly.
I believe this reconnect issue is causing a problem for Windows Media Centre, all my media lives on the NAS and sometimes MCE cannot find the files, when I navigate into a folder it just sits searching, but finding nothing. If I close and re-open MCE then it works fine again.... I'm convinced this is something to do with the NAS drive mappings as I have not had this issue before.
I have done some searching, tried a couple of registry changes with no success. I saw advice on changing group policy to wait for network resources to be available however I only have Win 7 Premium which doesn't appear to have Group Policy available.
If it's of any relevance the user on the NAS and on the PC are different.
The only non-default config I have on the NAS is that I setup Transmission, could this be an issue? I have tried disabling it and this doesn't help, althougn in the setup of Transmission I had to install root.... if this is the cause I'm happy to roll-back these changes, but it doesn't seem like it could be related.
Can anyone offer any advice?
I'm hoping this is a simple one to answer, and apologies for my possibly dumb question.
I'm running a Readynas Ultra 4 Pro, I have four drives/shares mapped to a win 7 machine. I can access the shares/mapped drives fine, and I have them set to reconnect at login, however after rebooting the drive mappings, in Windows Explorer show with a red cross, however if I click on one it appears to be mapped with file/folders listing correctly.
I believe this reconnect issue is causing a problem for Windows Media Centre, all my media lives on the NAS and sometimes MCE cannot find the files, when I navigate into a folder it just sits searching, but finding nothing. If I close and re-open MCE then it works fine again.... I'm convinced this is something to do with the NAS drive mappings as I have not had this issue before.
I have done some searching, tried a couple of registry changes with no success. I saw advice on changing group policy to wait for network resources to be available however I only have Win 7 Premium which doesn't appear to have Group Policy available.
If it's of any relevance the user on the NAS and on the PC are different.
The only non-default config I have on the NAS is that I setup Transmission, could this be an issue? I have tried disabling it and this doesn't help, althougn in the setup of Transmission I had to install root.... if this is the cause I'm happy to roll-back these changes, but it doesn't seem like it could be related.
Can anyone offer any advice?
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- This is a long-standing windows issue, there is nothing you can do on the NAS that will fix it.
Here's a lengthy thread on the topic that talks about this failing on XP, Vista, and Windows 7:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistanetworking/thread/8f3e052a-8115-4dad-8d2a-b37ee5dc347a
There is one site (http://marsbox.com/blog/howtos/windows-7-bug-could-not-reconnect-all-network-drives/) that suggests assigning a static IP address to the PC will prevent the problem. That is curious, though he does have a youtube video on the webpage showing how to do this, and also showing that it solved his issue. Of course, your static IP address would need to be appropriate for your network. - Solved.
Thanks for the link, after doing some more reading a found a solution.
I found a small utility to manage network mappings, basically it maps your network drives as specified, if the mapping wasn't successful, every minute it will try again to map the drives until they are successfully mapped.
I know this could be achieved through a wee batch script, and I found some VB to do this, but the utility provided a quick and easy option. eeney wrote: Solved.
Thanks for the link, after doing some more reading a found a solution.
I found a small utility to manage network mappings, basically it maps your network drives as specified, if the mapping wasn't successful, every minute it will try again to map the drives until they are successfully mapped.
I know this could be achieved through a wee batch script, and I found some VB to do this, but the utility provided a quick and easy option.
Can you post a link to the source of your utility? I have the same issue with mapped letter drives and have had the odd problem with CrashPlan not finding drives.- "Network Drive Manager" is the utility, I found it on Cnet... http://download.cnet.com/Network-Drive-Manager/3000-2085_4-10433337.html
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