Greetings!
As a part of a merger, etc, I was "migrated" to a new domain. As a part
of this migration I had 3 network drives (big!) mapped to me via GPO.
Those drives are in NYC, and I am in Illinois...
Consequently, "My Computer" became pretty much unusable until I unmapped
the drives. (I had the GPO changed to no longer map these drives for me.)
Several re-boots later, here is the current situation ...
I would like to mount these remote shares as drives only when I need them.
I can mount the drives off one file server with no problem. The other
two are on a different server, and here is what happens...
I have the local physical drives A, C, D, E, and R (floppy, two SATA hard
drives, and two DVD drives). At the moment, I have no USB drives
connected.
If I attempt to mount one of the shares from the "forbidden" server, I get
an error saying the resource is in use. If I remove the string "net use
m: " from my command (and paste the rest into an address bar), I connect
(but not as a mounted drive).
Example: in an address box, "\\nyc01.aspca.local\Shares\InfoTech", I see
the directory, files, and all sub-directories. In a command console, "net
use m: \\nyc01.aspca.local\Shares\InfoTech" returns the "resource in use"
error.
However, "net use m: \\nyc04.aspca.local\Shares\presentations" maps the
drive.
Clues?
FWIW, in the registry, HKLM\System\MountedDevices shows a couple dozen
entries which begin "\??\Volume{long hex string in brackets}". Then, I
see "\DosDevices\A:" (as well as C:, D:, E:, G:, H:, I:, J:, and R:). (No
idea what G, H, I, and J are!)
Thanks!
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Richard D. McClary
Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
ASPCA®
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Urbana, IL 61802
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