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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 23, 2013, 10:23 AM »

That can also happen with a Samba share if you have the offline files option enabled in the W7 Sync Center control panel. Try disabling offline files and you should be ok. Unless, of course, you use that feature.

Also +1 w/4wd when he recommends using UNC. Mapped network drives can be fussy at the best of times. And with the advent of ActiveDirectory and their new security model, Microsoft now recommends that you use UNC for accessing network shares rather than mapped drives.

-40hz (April 23, 2013, 06:28 AM)

And thank you to you too 

I had good hopes that that would work, but no 

I tried it both on my main desktop (W7), and on a really really freshly installed W8Pro (my new HTPC); nothing 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 23, 2013, 10:21 AM »

Try using the IP of your NAS instead of the name.

-skwire (April 23, 2013, 10:05 AM)

I did that also  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 23, 2013, 10:20 AM »

what happens if you just use the UNC or IP address instead of mapping the drive?

-4wd (April 22, 2013, 09:48 PM)

If only I understood what you are saying, I am not so smart in these matters  

Would you mind explaning a little more what you mean?

-Losdollos (April 23, 2013, 03:55 AM)

No problem, UNC is Universal Naming Convention^w used to access a network shared resource which can be a file, folder, printer, etc.

eg. \\SomeComputer\SomeFolder\SomeFile

IP is what you've already posted above, \\192.168.7.44\media

Instead of mapping a NAS share so that you can use Y: or X: as a path to a file, just use the UNC path, (or IP), to access the folder\file, eg.

\\NAS\media          <- change NAS to whatever name your NAS shows up as, eg. Synology
\\192.168.7.44\media
\\NAS\office
\\192.168.7.44\office

and add them to your Favourites in Explorer, (or whatever filemanager you use).

I don't think Onenote would have any problem syncing if you specified either one of those forms, (I might be wrong though), most Windows programs since Win98 usually work with one or the other.

-4wd (April 23, 2013, 05:15 AM)

Thank you very much for your suggestion  

I'm a little bit lost how to use this, since: I use Totalcommander (ever since the days of MS-DOS and Norton Commander  ). This, because I have never gotten used to how MS wants you to do filemanagement with the mouse and explorer; in Totalcommander, I simply select files in the left screen with <insert>, and do F5 or F6 to copy/move them to the right screen. Which is my mapped drive y:\ or x:\ (on the Synology NAS). I have been poking around, but if I don't have x:\ or y:\, then how do I select the directory on the NAS to move my files to, in Totalcommander?

I thought I'd take a screenshot to clarify what I mean  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 23, 2013, 10:03 AM »

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

-Losdollos (April 22, 2013, 02:21 AM)

I use the command like this:

net use s: \\server\c mypassword /USER:jody /PERSISTENT:NO

I always use the "/PERSISTENT:NO" option and then I either put a shortcut to the batch file in my startup folder or simply run the batch file manually after booting.  If you need me to break down the command part by part, just ask.

-skwire (April 22, 2013, 07:38 AM)

Reporting back 

It doesn't work 

The *exact* example I took from you, but all I get is:

[Select]

System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found

Googling on that gives the same type of 1001 things to try that might - and might not work.

However:

[Select]

net view \\Diskstation

Immediately does list all the directories (which reside inside \volume1, somehow Synology just simply shows the content of \volume1 automatically (which is good), instead of the content of \).

Why does it always have to be so difficult

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 23, 2013, 03:55 AM »

what happens if you just use the UNC or IP address instead of mapping the drive?

-4wd (April 22, 2013, 09:48 PM)

Thank you for your help 

If only I understood what you are saying, I am not so smart in these matters 

Would you mind explaning a little more what you mean?

Thank you in advance 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 23, 2013, 03:54 AM »

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

-Losdollos (April 22, 2013, 02:21 AM)

I use the command like this:

net use s: \\server\c mypassword /USER:jody /PERSISTENT:NO

I always use the "/PERSISTENT:NO" option and then I either put a shortcut to the batch file in my startup folder or simply run the batch file manually after booting.  If you need me to break down the command part by part, just ask.

-skwire (April 22, 2013, 07:38 AM)

Thanks for your help 

I will try it and report back here 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 22, 2013, 02:21 AM »

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)

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 

Thank again for your help 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 21, 2013, 11:04 AM »

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:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-4wd (April 21, 2013, 06:05 AM)

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  ).

Thanks again 

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Living Room / Re: Getting Things Done revisited

« on: April 21, 2013, 03:42 AM »

I definitely feel better when I know I've been through it all!

-TaoPhoenix (April 21, 2013, 12:55 AM)

That is exactly the purpose of it   To make you feel more relaxed, knowing that you are in control of what you need to do. Which makes your mind (subconsciousness) take a break. I know from experience that is true. I am in the process of setting up a system that will work for me and me girl, using MS OneNote 2010 (I think that is an amazing, and extremely overlooked, piece of software. Finally something very good came from MS 0 ). I have to, since I am drowning in work, and, as a consequence, am doing a 1000 things at a time, *not* getting anything done 

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: activate Windows (7) mapped network drives

« on: April 21, 2013, 03:33 AM »

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.co...indows-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....owthread.php?t=59356

http://www.conetrix....ilable-Over-VPN.aspx

https://social.techn...a-9adc-3a4926db4d72/

http://answers.micro...8e-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,