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Losdollos:
Good morning  :)

This appears to be a literally huge problem around the whole world, so learned my search for a solution to this problem.

It has been described perfectly over here:

http://ptihosting.com/blog/it-blog/red-x-on-mapped-drive-in-windows-7-and-windows-vista-solved/

However that solution doesn't work for me. There are really a zillion other 'solutions' going from tweaking the registry to changing the way you map the shared network folder (either via 'net use' or by putting in the hostname instead of the IP-address, or the other way around, and so on and so forth), but none of these work for me. To give you an example of these other 'solutions' (and there are many, many, many, more of them when you google around for hours as I did ( :(():

http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=59356

http://www.conetrix.com/Blog/post/Fixing-Problem-With-Windows-7-Shared-Files-and-Mapped-Drives-Unavailable-Over-VPN.aspx

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/ad75a4b4-34a6-42da-9adc-3a4926db4d72/

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/a-red-x-appears-in-the-icon-for-a-mapped-network/d9df46f6-4631-438e-9fb3-5cc6f9336ff9

So, as in the problem description in the first post, I have the same kind of problem:
- Windows 7 Pro X64
- Synology NAS with mapped shares (x:\ for \\192.168.7.44\media, y:\ for \\192.168.7.44\office).
- On booting the PCs, the x:\ and y:\ appear invisible, but you can access them normally, by first double clicking on the drive (in explorer). Then the red cross disappears and the icon turns into green, and you can access it normally.
- The problem is this. As an example (but the problem is relevant for more applications): my girl and I use Office OneNote 2010, which allows you to have shared notebook. It is put on the NAS, and both my girl and I record 'todos', 'things to buy', and so on, in it. OneNote is supposed to sync this in the background, so that if I type something into it, my girl on her PC can also see that. This will work, but not when the drive icon is red. OneNote will tell you  'syncing not possible'. You then have to go into explorer, double click on y:\ once, et voila, Onenote happily syncs sinces it now 'sees' the share that was there all along. Of course this is extremely annoying (not only for this, but also because the problem is relevant for a bunch of other programs we use also).
- So, to make it clear, this has nothing to do with access rights: the logon data has been stored in Windows credential manager (as enterprise, so persistent), and Windows doesn't ask for a password, it simply has to do with these mapped drives *appearing* not to be online to Windows, whereas actually they were mapped at boot correctly. There is just 'something' that makes them appear offline.

To finalize it: at first I thought this might be having something to do with Synology, perhaps some problems in different SAMBA-protocols or whatever, but this appears not to be the case; I mapped a drive on a Windows 8 'puter to my Windows 7 work station, and the problem remains the same.

Is there an extremely talented developer who says 'no sweat, easy, peace of cake'? (I really, really, really, hope so, since I googled and tried for weeks, but I can't get it fixed  :().

Of course, just to confirm that I am not a 'free rider': I will happily donate money for a solution to this extremely irritating problem  :)

Thank you for your time and attention,

Bye,

4wd:
What if you just set a Scheduled Task to run at user logon of:

dir Y: >NUL && dir X: >NUL

Attached is a task you can import into the Task Scheduler along with a cmd file to put in C:\.

Something to try and it's reasonably simple.

You could also make it only happen if the network is available by setting a condition:

IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

Losdollos:
What if you just set a Scheduled Task to run at user logon of:

dir Y: >NUL && dir X: >NUL

Attached is a task you can import into the Task Scheduler along with a cmd file to put in C:\.

Something to try and it's reasonably simple.

You could also make it only happen if the network is available by setting a condition:
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-4wd (April 21, 2013, 06:05 AM)
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Thanks for your reply  :)

Exactly that was what I thought of myself yesterday; but it won't dir, because Windows thinks the drive is offline (which it is not). So 'something' needs to simulate 'double clicking on each drive' (but then in more sound developers language  :D).

Thanks again  :)

skwire:
Hi, Losdollos, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.  I know you've searched far and wide, but have you tried this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624

FWIW, I've solved this problem over the years by using a batch file with "net use" commands to map my drives.

Losdollos:
Hi, Losdollos, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.  I know you've searched far and wide, but have you tried this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624

FWIW, I've solved this problem over the years by using a batch file with "net use" commands to map my drives.
-skwire (April 21, 2013, 11:14 AM)
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Thank you for your reply, Skwire  :)

Yes, I tried that also, but that also didn't work  :(

Just out of curiousity, would you mind posting your batch file? I tried using 'net use' but it didn't work for me. But if it works for you, perhaps I did make a mistake somewhere  :tellme:

Thank again for your help  :)

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