drive mapping doesn't show

[green250]

I have a win 2000 pc hooked up to a domain, when I map a drive it looks like it mapped fine but it does not show up any where (explorer), if I goto start > run and type the drive letter there it shows up no problem, I went to another win2000 pc and mapped the drive no problem, does anyone know what could be the cause of this?

(this is only on 1 mapping other mappings show up fine)

 

[wolluf]

Install tweakui and check under My Computer tab (you can hide drive letters - its a registry setting) - unhide the one(s) in question (if this is problem).

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp

 

[green250]

well now I guess the drive mapping is the same on other win2000 pc's, I tried that tweak ui but didn't really help.

 

[wolluf]

Under the My Computer tab in tweakui, did the mapped drive letter have a tick in its box? (the drive being hidden is nothing to do with the mapping - its a registry setting on the particular machine - it could be a hard drive, floppy, anything).

 

[green250]

so i downloaded tweakui but there is no install program nothing, what do you mean Under the My Computer tab in tweakui?

 

[wolluf]

Download tweakui.exe from that link. Run it. Unzips files into temp folder. Open temp folder, right click on tweakui.inf and click on install. This will create a control panel icon to give access to its functions.

Sorry - been using it so long, didn't occur to me that its not obvious!

 

[bcastner]

If you have the Kodak picture viewer installed, reinstall. You are missing a service component.

 

[bcastner]

You can instruct Explorer to not display a drive(s) in the My Computer display. When enabled, this policy removes the icons representing the selected disk drives from My Computer, Windows Explorer, and My Network Places and from Common Dialogs. Note that the registry key is Policies\Explorer.
For example, you create partition E: and use it exclusively for NT's pagefile. To prevent a (possibly ignorant) user from browsing to that partition and deleting files that should not be deleted, apply the following Windows NT / Windows 2000 Registry hack :

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoDrives
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: To calculate the value, add together the numbers for the drives you want to hide, using the formula: A=1, B=2, C=4, D=8, E=16, F=32, G=64, and so forth. To hide D: & E:, the value would be 8+16=24.

To use system policies to hide drives:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q242/0/92.asp&NoWebContent=1

Only casual users will be blocked using this policy or registry hack. The Find command finds files the hidden drives. The old Filemanager, winfile.exe, is unaffected by this setting. Sadly, the biggest hole for GUI users, most versions of Office are unaffected by this policy. It is a barrier but if your goal is to secure the drives in a student lab environment, there are many ways around or over the barrier.

 

[bcastner]

Another possibility is that scanning for network resources is disabled.

You should check Group Policy and the registry on the machine.

In WinXP, and I believe in Win2k, one can prevent the appearance of mapped resources by changing the following user policy:
Run Gpedit.msc using "Start Button" -> "Run..."
In the Console Window go to this folder "User Configuration" -> "Administrative Templates" -> "Start Menu and Taskbar"
Go to the entry "Do not add shares of recently used documents to Network Places" and double click it and set to "Enabled"
In any case it is the same as setting this DWORD registry key :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer]
NoRecentDocsNetHood = 1 (Default = 0)

There is a builtin scanner that crawls the network and any share or printer discovered are added to My Network Places or Printers and Faxes.

The scanner for network resources is started in the following situations:
At startup
When opening My Network Places
When refreshing My Network Places by pressing F5
The scanner is not started if one of the following conditions are true:
. If more than 10 computers are detected sharing folders (To be gentle on corporate networks)
. If using DUN or VPN connection
. If the scanner is disabled.

The scanner saves its findings here (If more than 7 days old then they are deleted)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Netcrawl \Shares]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Netcrawl \Printers]

To disable the automatic scanning and recognition of network resources:
Open Control Panel
Double click Folder Options (Inside the grouping Appearance and Themes)
Select the View tab
In the Advanced Settings list untick "Automatically search for network folders and printers"

It is reflected with this DWORD value in the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced]
NoNetCrawling = 1

 

[green250]

thanks for all the info It is really appreciated!