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Network drives not shown on some users. Explorer need to be restarted
we have windows domain, with a gpo where the drives are mapped, one of the users just one, has the problem the drives are not shown or disappears after a time. Strangely if you use any other programms ...
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GPO to set DFS Path to Active in Referral List for mapped drive
I have a DFS Namespace of domain.lcl\DFS that replicates a folder ReplFolder across 3 geographically dispersed servers:
\\VANCOUVER\FolderA
\\MADRID\FolderA
\\TOKYO\FolderA
I can manually map a drive ...
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Drive Mapping through GPO on few Servers
I have a requirement to fulfill related to Drive mapping through GPO.
We have a domain (let's call it contoso.com).
Under contoso, we have an OU "InfraComputers" where there are 1000s of ...
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Sometimes drive mappings don't connect at logon
I have this strange problem at all our clients. Sometimes, when u user logs on, a drive-mapping is missing. So for example, the user needs 2 drive-mappings, but gets only one.
We are deploying drive-...
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Deleted Drive Map via GPO Still Showing
I have a mapped gpo drives configured on my Windows Server 2012r2 and it works great when mapping a drive. The issue is when I delete a drive b/c it is no longer needed, it still reappears even after ...
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Why does "Remove this item when it is no longer applied'' in Drive Maps preferences disconnect users' AD home folder?
When I enable "Remove this item when it is no longer applied" for any mapped drive in Group Policy preferences, the user's home folder that is mapped by their Active Directory account ...
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Retrieve Actions-property of an via group-policy mapped network drive on Windows-client
is it possible to retrieve detailed informationen about mapped network drives, which are configured via group policy, on the client side? Especially i'm interested in the "Actions"-property:
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How do I get the drive mapping to work via GPO after a domain rename?
I just underwent a domain rename as requested by management.
So previously I had my network shares put under GPO.
They were all under Update, using the reconnect option and were using the FQDN of ...
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Drive mappings from login script do not work
I have about Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Servers in farm. To the best of my knowledge they are all have the same update status and they are also goverened by the same GPO. Among others, users ...
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Windows 10 network share (by gpo in domain) not showing in explorer
I map 2 drives from the same samba server via the same GPO in a domain. I have (at least) one Windows 10 (1803) client PC, that only maps one drive (K). The other drive (L):
is not shown in explorer
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Drive map recreation via GPO during background refresh
We have a drive map GPO that applies to our users container, so that drive maps are created on any machine the user logs into.
What we have found, is that if the maps are deleted, and a gpupdate /...
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Creators Update Stops Cross Domain GPO Drive mapping working ('0x80090005 Bad Data)
We're testing out Windows 10 Creators Update (Build 15063) here. So far this is the only unsolvable issue we've encountered.
This issue is exclusive to Creators: identical Users and GPO's work fine ...
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Map network drive from cloud based server using Group Policy (Windows)
I recently purchased a cloud server to use for backup. This server is configured with public IP address, and has Windows Server 2016 installed on it.
On the other hand, I have a Windows Server 2008 ...
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GPO Create and Add a Mapped Drive custom to the username
How can I create a Mapped Drive that is based on the Username of the user who is logging in?
In other words, if I specify the path \\dc1\share\%username% and have the user's computer log in every ...
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Auto Mapping Network Drives
I'm an IT Apprentice trying to use a group policy (in Windows Server 2012) to auto map network folders when someone first logs on to a machine. This is the batch file I have written and the 'Share' ...
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Map drive but only on workstations, not servers
In our Windows domain I would like to map a file server's share to drive letter whenever an authenticated user logs in to a desktop, but not when a user (any user) logs into a server. Is there a way ...
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Group Policy not applying on win8.1 machines
I am trying to add a mapped drive for a specific set of users.
So far I have created the Policy object, linked it to the OU where the users are. Set the security filtering to the security group that ...
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Site-to-Site Group policy
So I have Site A and Site B.
At Site A is a Domain Controller that has a OU called "GPO_test"
I have a GPO that maps a drive to \\Server\Share and given the drive letter X: linked to GPO_test
Now ...
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Map a shared drive through GPO/GPP on a Windows 10 machine that is not part of an active directory domain
I have a Windows 2012 R2 domain controller running the most recent version of Active Directory. I have 17 client computers (desktops and laptops), most are Windows 10 and some are Windows 8 or ...
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Using more than one GPO
I understand that GPO conflicts are resolved from bottom to top, so if two policies do the same thing only one will be applied.
Now if I want to map drives using a GPO, so 3 drives (E:,F:,G:) are ...
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Why are Mapped Drives using GPO saying they can't find the network path or do not have access?
Shared drive is being set as the following
\\SERVER\SHARE using drive N
All drives have no change
Show hidden drives no change
Titled: "Share"
Reconnect: unchecked
Set as Update/Create/Replace (all ...
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Mapped drives aren't syncing on workstations
It seems like a few workstations on our network aren't syncing with the mapped drives, pretty randomly, so for example, different users on the same computer would see different files on the mapped ...
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Group Policy: Mapped Drives failing to load, Windows Server 2012 Active Directory and Windows Pro 10
Network:
Multi-site domain.
Each site has 2 local (on-site, same subnet) Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain controllers.
Sites are correctly defined in Windows Sites and Services.
DNS records for ...
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Mapped drive not reconnecting with other credentials on login (Server 2003)
We have an old 2003 server (I know, we should have decommissioned this a long time ago), and we have a user who has an issue with a mapped drive.
The server and the user account are on our old domain,...
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Accomplishing the task of mapping a drive to user logged in as
I've searched for this and found bits and pieces but I think this question would be specific enough that I want to make sure I get it correct.
So what I'm wanting to do us to unify all our different ...
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Windows Server 2008r2 User Mapped Drives disconnect when GPO Mapped Drives are in effectg
I am trying to find out if a user can map their own drives and have them stay in place when they are subject to GPO mapped drives.
The GPO that is in place will Map a drive which is assigned Q and ...
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Group policy drive mapping extension not applying to Vista SP2 machine
I have one GPO (called Desktop_User) that applies to a Windows 7 and a Windows Vista machine. When I log on to this systems, the drive mapping works on the Windows 7 machine but the Windows Vista ...
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Win Server GPO Mapped Drive Missing "Connect As" functionality
We're having an issue trying to create a policy for mapping drives. We're unable to specify a "connect as" username and password.
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GPO to map drives conditionally
We have a file server that is sharing out user drives from //server/user$. We also have webDav enabled so it can be access externally by https://fileserver.company.com/user.
My challenge is to map ...
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Network drive map through GPO not working on Windows 2012 (Neither via logon script nor drive maps)
Although I thought this would be easy I am unable to automatically connect to a network drive via GPO.
I tried through a batch file on (User Configuration / Policies / Windows Settings / Script / ...
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Enable offline file sync for computer owner only
At the school I am interning at, all students and faculty have a mapped home folder known as the "M:" drive for storing files that they can access from all computers. For faculty who have laptops, we ...
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Ensure drive is mapped at login on laptop with strictly wireless
So, $software runs on a 'server' (windows client w/ file sharing to share out the db folder), and laptop client has the drive mapped and $software also installed. This is the vendor's recommended ...
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Mapped Drive by OU
I want to implement a mapped drive which is hidden/exposed based on the OU of the user. I have a working version of this in one environment (Windows 2008R2; created by someone else), and I am trying ...
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GPP drive map to nested share maps to root share on Windows 8.1
Good day everyone, I'm in the midst of testing out Windows 8.1 as an enterprise OS to avoid a crisis when Win7 is no longer supported. One of the problems I've run into is with drive mappings. Most of ...
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Windows Server 2008 GPO Not Mapping Drives?
I have 2 servers.
Server 1:
Linux server running Samba, that has a share called "Common".
Server 2:
Windows Server 2008. I created a GPO that maps drive R: to \\LINUXSERVER\Common. I set it to "...
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Drive mapping maps two different folders for elevated and non-elevated programs
I have a Windows 2012 Domain with a couple of Windows 8 x64 Enterprise members. I want to use Group Policies to map a drive X: to a folder on a file server. The drive X: should be available on the ...
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GPO not applying to an OU
We have a batch file (logon.bat) that maps drives whenever a user logs on.
This script is applied by Group Policy to the entire domain.
Initially, this worked perfectly, as we always wanted this ...
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Win 2008 Group Policy : Does Drive Maps (GPP) run before Logon Script setting? Both user configs are set within same policy [duplicate]
I'm on Win 2008 R2 DC with XP and Win7 desktops.
On one of User GPOs, there is Drive Maps and Logon Script configured.
Drive Maps are under GPP, and Logon Script is under user config.
Both user ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Map User Specific Drive
On our old Windows 2003 SBS, the guy that set up the network created a login script that fired to map some drives and add a network printer. I would like to do away with that script and just use the ...
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Active Directory Mapped Drive won't stay connected
WinSrv08R2. I have a drive mapped to Win7 clients via Group Policy that's on another computer (an OS X server, mapped via "\serverIP\folder"). EVERY time the user logs out and then back in, it pops up ...
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Drive mapping fails via GPO preferences but works fine in a VBScript
I'm running a few Windows Server 2008 R2 servers with domain computers running Windows XP SP3. Client side extension is installed.
I opted to use Group Policy Preferences over the conventional ...
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Group Policy drive maps fail with Error Code: 0x80070043
I'm running a Server 2008 R2 domain with all Windows 7 x64 bit client machines.
All drives are mapped using Group Policy. Which were previously on a NAS
We just built a new, huge, fast server. So I'...
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GPO for drive mapping won't work with %LogonUser% in location field
I'm struggling with a problematic drive mapping user preference where I'm trying to use the user's %LogonUser% variable to a network location (eg. \server\folder\users\%LogonUser%), but the drive ...
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Sometimes do not get network drive maps in Windows 7 Enterprise
I have a user that has a AD (Windows 2003) loginscript that maps a number of drives. The user has to traverse an external network to login to the domain. It is a pretty reliable connection but it's ...
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Windows Server 2008 mapped drives not showing on workstations?
I am running Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition with a Windows XP Pro workstation setup as a test unit.
I have added an Organisational Unit called 'Misc Users' and have linked a GP called 'Basic ...
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How to determine how map drives are being mapped
I know there are several ways to map a drive letter to a networked resource in a Windows environment. What I would like to know is how to quickly determine the means for which each mapped drive is ...
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Auto-drive mapping for each user
I'm trying to auto map for each users in my AD a folder on the server/
So I'm trying to use the new feature in SBS/Server 08 :
User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps
Action:...
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Drive Mapping Through Group Preferences
My department is currently transitioning our servers to Server 2008R2 and we are looking into using Group Preferences to map network drives. Our users currently have a personal network drive and at ...
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