Mapped drives and My Network Places

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Is there any difference when accessing folders by means of a mapped
drive and going all the way through My Network Places? I'm just
wandering as I have a strange problem with some of the users in our
network. Basically from time to time some of them and in practice
always the same ones age having difficulties with accessing some
folders shared on the server. They have all the permissions they need
and more and it's not just the matter of getting access denied error
but not being able to see any contents inside a shared folder at all.
More bizaarely on other occasions they can see and access all the
contents just fine. There are no limits set on how many users can
access any of company folders so that definitely wouldn't be causing
the problem. The server has 25 licenses and there are currently only
16 users. The licensing service is disabled as it's an old Win2k
server.
Any ideas?
Thanks
yaro
 
Re: Mapped drives and My Network Places

Hi There,

It might be worth checking to see if there is offline files and folders
enabled. If it is when the problem happens check the systray to see if its
gone offline. If it has right click the icon and synchronise. See if the
items them appear.

<yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:90ab0001-4d6c-47fa-89ef-e83ea2b402cc@i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Is there any difference when accessing folders by means of a mapped
> drive and going all the way through My Network Places? I'm just
> wandering as I have a strange problem with some of the users in our
> network. Basically from time to time some of them and in practice
> always the same ones age having difficulties with accessing some
> folders shared on the server. They have all the permissions they need
> and more and it's not just the matter of getting access denied error
> but not being able to see any contents inside a shared folder at all.
> More bizaarely on other occasions they can see and access all the
> contents just fine. There are no limits set on how many users can
> access any of company folders so that definitely wouldn't be causing
> the problem. The server has 25 licenses and there are currently only
> 16 users. The licensing service is disabled as it's an old Win2k
> server.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> yaro
 
Re: Mapped drives and My Network Places

Licensing is not your proboem. Your problem is more than likely if the users
are using a laptop or they are having network connectivity problems with a
desktop and they click on a drive that they do not have network access to at
the time. Sometimes Windows will remove the mapped drive from explorer, and
drop you down the focus down to the next available drive. Could this be what
you are experiencing?

Harry Bates


<yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:90ab0001-4d6c-47fa-89ef-e83ea2b402cc@i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Is there any difference when accessing folders by means of a mapped
> drive and going all the way through My Network Places? I'm just
> wandering as I have a strange problem with some of the users in our
> network. Basically from time to time some of them and in practice
> always the same ones age having difficulties with accessing some
> folders shared on the server. They have all the permissions they need
> and more and it's not just the matter of getting access denied error
> but not being able to see any contents inside a shared folder at all.
> More bizaarely on other occasions they can see and access all the
> contents just fine. There are no limits set on how many users can
> access any of company folders so that definitely wouldn't be causing
> the problem. The server has 25 licenses and there are currently only
> 16 users. The licensing service is disabled as it's an old Win2k
> server.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> yaro
 
Re: Mapped drives and My Network Places

Thanks guys. It would be difficult to test the theory with offline
files as the occurrence of these events is quite random. It's not just
one folder and you never now which one is it gonna be next. If I would
like to sync all the shared folders I would definitely run out of
space. I'm not sure if they're using laptops but that's highly
probable. In second case I must say that they're connecting just fine
to the mapped drives. It's just that if they go deep inside the shared
folders then sometimes at some point they're getting to one that looks
empty to them although at the same time other users can see all the
contents. I know it's really weird but here we are.
yaro
 
Re: Mapped drives and My Network Places


http://mylogon.net/support/psave

You will get this kind of symptom if "offline files" is active and the
powersave keeps cutting-in unexpectedly.


"yaro137@googlemail.com" wrote:

> Thanks guys. It would be difficult to test the theory with offline
> files as the occurrence of these events is quite random. It's not just
> one folder and you never now which one is it gonna be next. If I would
> like to sync all the shared folders I would definitely run out of
> space. I'm not sure if they're using laptops but that's highly
> probable. In second case I must say that they're connecting just fine
> to the mapped drives. It's just that if they go deep inside the shared
> folders then sometimes at some point they're getting to one that looks
> empty to them although at the same time other users can see all the
> contents. I know it's really weird but here we are.
> yaro
>
>
>
 
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