Could it possibly be a mixup of mapping the drives from normal and/or
elevated permissioned windows?

As crazy as it sounds, I've seen weird behavior like that when there is a
mixed consistency of mappings on x64 systems.  AFAICT, its usually born of
mapping drives from the command prompt.   To clear it, I have to go through
and remove the mappings from both normal and elevated CMD windows.

I have not been able to intentionally replicate the issue consistently, but
I've encountered it enough times for it to be in my thought process.

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Espi


On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I’m trying to solve a weird issue on one laptop for a client.  There are
> several drives mapped using GPO on a 2008r2 domain. As expected, most
> laptops show a red x over mapped drives when off the company network.  They
> enable VPN and then have access.
>
>
>
> I have one system (win7 64 bit) that when the user logs in away from
> corporate network, the mapped drives do not appear.  I tried running
> gpupdate /force after enabling VPN without success ...but understand that
> probably wouldn’t work anyway because drive maps in GPO typically only
> happen at logon.
>
>
>
> I tried creating a bat file to net use the drive mappings so that the user
> could run this after turning on the vpn.  This fails with an already in use
> error.  Because of the error, I went to look at the screen where you
> manually map a drive.  And the error is correct.  All of the drive letters
> we use show as mapped to the correct UNC path.  But the mapped drives do
> not show up in explorer and explorer doesn’t recognize the drive letters as
> valid location if you enter the drive letter in the address bar.
>
>
>
> Anyone have any insight as to why this laptop hates me?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>

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