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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 ...
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.
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.
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