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- IT Dojo: Quickly map drive letters in Windows XP with SUBST, PUSHD, and POPD
- Mapping drive letters in Windows XP is a common task. It's not a complicated process, but you can save time with a few easy shortcuts. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler demonstrates three old DOS commands that making mapping folders and network shares a snap. First,...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, it dojo, windows xp, drive mapping, tips, help desk, network shares
- Videos 2008-04-29
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- Save time by creating position-based network shares
- What is the first thing you do when a new employee is hired into a vacated position? You go to the office of the former employee, throw out all the furniture, computers, and peripherals and put in new stuff, right?Well, no, of course not. What you do is place your...
- Tags: Andrew David Carnahan, network
- Technical articles 2003-06-04
- Tech Tip: Secure network shares/Mount a volume in an empty NTFS folder
- Windows 2000 Professional: Secure network shares Network shares are one of the mechanisms that worms and viruses use to spread. They often look for shares with no restrictive security and plant contaminated files in the shares to also infect the computers of users...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Folder, NTFS, Disk, Network, Volume, Virus, \Users, \Users Folder, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
- Server 2003 network shares slow under XP
- We are converting our network over from Novel to Windows 2003 and have come up with a problem when it comes to the network shares.When you open a network folder from a XP workstation, either using the name (//server/folder) or a mapped drive, there is a 15-20 second delay. This...
- Tags: network, scott@..., windows, xp, networking, server 2003, share, slow, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- Network Shares become Unavailable
- I'm running into an issue where one of my servers' network shares become unavailable after a few days. The only fix I've been able to do is to reboot it. They'll be available after that, but only for a few days week max and then they're unavailable again.The...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, server, network
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- Symantec Overprotecting Network Shares
- I have network shares on a pier to pier network with workstations running Symantec Antivirus version 11. When modules proactive and network threat are enabled the shares can no longer be accessed regardless of permissions. Does anyone know of a method to configure Symantec to still protect using these modules...
- Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp., network, Mac Network
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Cannot access certain network shares from same server in Vista
- I have a 2003 Server and 200+ clients mixed XP & Vista mostly XP. Problem is I have a user that just got his machine replaced with Vista. Before he could access all of the network shares that were mapped to his computer. Before installing replacing users machine I ran...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), network share, Microsoft Windows Vista, server, network
- Discussion threads 2009-01-30
- Document network Shares and Permissions
- I am a new Network Administrator for a company with an enterprise-wide network, with about 40 Windows 2000 servers, and a few NT 4 thrown in Including PDC and BDC. I would like to get suggestions for any software tools, free, expensive, it doesn't matter. What I need...
- Tags: Permissions, network, Document, Display, tool, lhuntres, windows
- Q&A 2005-01-31
- Network shares over internet...
- I have a backup software that sends data to a network drive over the internet. Some of my clients have no problem with either the software connection or mapping a network drive to the share. The share is on Server 2003 with permissions per user/folder. I have noticed that the...
- Tags: BellSouth Corp., brian@..., Internet, Internet Service Provider, network, windows
- Q&A 2006-03-23
- Windows Xp Pro sp2 disconnects from network shares after idle time
- I'm running a windows 2000 domain controller, and terminal services. I have joined several windows xp pro machines to the said domain. All is fine except, when the machines are left on over night, the network shares are listed but unavailable. I need to log off and back on again...
- Tags: jason@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, network, networking, Service Pack 2, software, windows, Windows XP Pro SP2
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- Leopard disconnects from windows file shares and sometimes internet?
- I am supporting a user on a brand new Intel MacPro with Leopard and we are using the built-in software to connect to our active directory. The user complains that she is disconnected twice per day at almost the exact same time and I don't know what to think....
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, NETWORKING, Domain names, Leopard, Internet, window, Apple Macintosh, Disconnected, network share, network, Microsoft Windows, server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Mapped Network Drive must be hidden, but accessible
- I know that hiding a drive on a network uses the "$" sign in the logon script, but when I ran that, I could not access the drive at all even though it was mapped in the script by typing in the name of the drive. Is there a...
- Tags: jmaurer@..., network, networking, payroll, permission, security
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Unable to access network shared drives
- One computer (of course it HAS to be the President's) on my network cannot to any shared drives on the server. I will type the path (e.g. \SERVER) and nothing comes up. Typing a folder that's shared (e.g. \SERVERApplications) brings up an error that says the user doesn't...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, server, network, Server Service, domain, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Configuring a Distributed File System (DFS) on your Windows Network
- The Windows 2000 Distributed File System DFS allows users to find, view, and work with files on your network from one central location. With DFS configured, users do not have to understand the complexities of a network or enter long UNC addresses to browse to files. DFS is installed with...
- Tags: Dfs Root, Distributed File System, Microsoft Windows, network
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Manage Windows 2000 Server shares with the greatest of ease
- Do you want to see which shared directories are available on your computer? How about on your Windows 2000 Server network? By using an old tool, you'll find that this new trick still works. Managing shares in Windows 2000 can be difficult if you don't publish them in...
- Tags: Jim Boyce, Windows 2000 Server Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Server, News, Computer, ShareUI, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Technical articles 2006-10-09
- Help Adding MAC to Windows Network
- We would like to add a MAC to our windows network and allow the graphic designer to have access to network shares and printes.I'm not familiar with MAC at all and would like recommendations for a consulting firm in the DC area.Also, where can I be trained to administer and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, MAC, Microsoft Windows, mtshilombo@..., network
- Q&A 2005-02-11
- Slow in opening network folders
- Hi,I have a windows xp pro machine that is really slow in opening files and folders from the network and from our file servers. The weird part is that it takes much longer to open up a folder as you get deeper into the folder directory structure. The first folder...
- Tags: Eminent87, file server, network, server, windows
- Q&A 2004-10-07
- Server 2003 R2 SP2 - Network shares to remote building disconnect.
- First post....Brief description: We have two buildings connected via two devices owned by our isp. It's not a vpn, the device basically just forwards all traffic from one building to another. Both buildings are on different subnets and our firewall/vpn device at our main building routes traffic. No changes have...
- Tags: VPNs, Network security, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, it@..., VPN, server, subnet, member server, network
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Disable Auto Discovery of Network Shares
- My question is about auto completion of available shares while typing in a path in the "Run" box. I have unchecked the "Automatically Search for Network Folders and Printers" in Explorer | Tools | Folder options, but this does not disable displaying of shares when a valid server name...
- Tags: desktop, network, Run, server, Start, Start Run Box, tray.white@..., windows
- Q&A 2004-11-09
- TS network print jobs going to another printer - same model different IP
- This concerns 4 HP 2430n printers. Each TS user has one of these network printers added to their profile. For the past few weeks, 3 of the printers have sporadically been printing to the 4th printer, although that printer is not in the list of printers on their profiles. I've...
- Tags: Printers, IP, job, printer
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
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