network-drive interview questions
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I want the network hard drive or drive with an ethernet port so that I don't need a computer to make it network-accessible. Is a computer required, or can I do this computer-independently with an ethernet cable attached to the HDD?
I am thinking of getting this:
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C:\> cd \\somewhere
'\\somewhere'
CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
What I usually do to get around this is to map that directory to a network drive and then I could easily access it from the command prompt.
But is there an easier way on how to get around this?
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I deleted a file on a network drive. Is it possible to get it back? It is not in my recycle bin, and it is not in the recycle bin on the server to which I have a network drive too.
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I want to be able to access my Lacie 2Big network drive in Windows 7 Explorer. I have a machine with Windows 7 Home and one with Windows 7 Professional.
Neither Windows 7, home or pro, can access the drive. The Windows 7 Home machine displays the drive in its Explorer, with the capacity, but on clicking the icon, I get another window, blank with the busy pointer which does not eventually stop.
The drive is working perfectly. How do I know this? Because I can access it with no problems on my Apple Mac, Windows XP home and Ubuntu machines on the same network as the Windows 7 machines. Except for the Windows XP home machine that required Lacie ethernet agent program, the Mac and the Ubuntu machines needed no setup, the drive appeared like any other drive.
So my 2 questions:
Is it possible to access a network share drive, e.g. a NAS like Lacie 2big in Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional. If so how?
I read on Microsoft's own forums and elsewhere that network sharing drives, e.g. via SambaSMB is NOT possible on Windows 7 Home. Is this true?
This question is a more comprehensive re-write of my earlier question: Windows 7 / TCP/IP network share guide - looking for to resolve failure to mount lacie network drive but works on XP,Linux,Mac.
...where I haven't received a solving answer, and I have tried to find a solution myself. Lacie themselves haven't offered a definitive solving answer either, but I suspect it's not just their drives but SMB/network share/NAS in general...
This is utterly pathetic that Windows 7 home cannot access something as simple as a network drive, especially given that Windows XP home can.
My research so far:
Apparently it is possible on Windows 7 Professional, via the Local Security Policy, only on Windows 7 Professional, not Windows 7 Home:
Another solution offered is editing the registry, doesn't look promising to me, fiddly and not guaranteed, hard to produce a complete solution I think, given that everyone's registry can vary. Registry key edit solutons:
My lacie ticket is:
Also related:
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How to access the mapped network drives from the mingw shell? When I try
cd y: or cd /y or y:
All I get is No such file or directory or sh.exe y:: command not found.
I am able to access the same mapped Y: drive using cmd. I would like to know how to do the same using mingw shell.
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Using a batch file, suppose a directory on a network machine, mapped to a drive with net use.
net use \\"server name"\"share name" y:
Then from that directory
y:
cd archive
An xcopy to another location on that drive.
xcopy *.* backup\
What behaviour would xcopy take? Would a temporary copy of *.* be sent to the host machine (the one on which the batch is started) only to be sent back to the destination directory, or would the copy be effected solely on the network drive?
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I having problems mounting a webdav drive via explorer or cmd with the following command:
net use z: "https://.." /user:username password
System error 67 has occured.
The network name cannot be found.
Everything working fine on my other machines.
Thought I had to install the "Desktop Experience" Feature but cant find it in Server Manager / Add Features. I`ve already added the "Media Foundation" Feature and the "WebDAV Publishing" is even installed with IIS. I cant find the WebClient Service in services.msc.
Any suggestions, how enable client side webdav support?
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Normally when I log in to Windows Vista I have several network drives that automatically get mapped. Every so often this fails. Is there a way I can triggering mapping all these drives without logging out and back in?
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I am not sure but when I start my Command Prompt in Administrator mode, I can't switch to a mapped drive. I can do so if I am not in Administrator mode.
Am I missing something simple?
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How do I find out where a network drive on my work machine is mapped to?
One of the four has the location in brackets next to it but the other three don't.
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I have a network drive - mapped to Z:\
Is there a simple command to know the full network path from cmd ?
I.e. if cmd shows Z:\ABC\, I had like a command to output \\networkDrive\MappedDir\ABC
net use is fine but I would like to get the full path of the current working directory (for quick copies).
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I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am logged in as Admin. The network disk is configured in Linksys, that an admin group can r&w. Now I have added this settings to Credential Manager, where I have specified network address of disk, username and password. I have added it, because otherwise the Windows 7 would forget the username & password on restart of the system.
Now the network disk is working without problems. I can access file, write files on it, delete files from it. The problem arises, if I want to delete folder, that contains other files or folders. Now here for some reason it displays this error:
I tried Try Again, it displays Error 0x8007045D (I/O error):
This error is supposed to happen, when there is something wrong with USB port, or USB drivers, but this drive is not accessed via USB, it is a network based disk. Also, I don't have any problems with devices connected through USB, not that it matters in this problem.
Then I clicked Cancel. Now what is really strange about this is, that the folder has gone missing! I will be able to see it again, if I reconnect the network disk, or restart the computer. Now I really don't understand about the permission thing, becuase I am already Admin. I have looked up under network disk properties -> security, and this is want I have found:
As you can see, it seems the account Account Unknown is what controls what can be accessed. It only has Special permission allowed. So I tried to change it to allow everything (which probably would not make a diffrence, because it seems that under that Special permission falls almost everything, as I said I can do everything except delete folders, that contain other files or other folders). When I wanted to apply the Full control that I have selected it gave this error:
It seems that I cannot change this permission. So I wanted to know who exactly is behind this permission, and I got this under Advanced -> Owner:
I guess the Linksys E3000 operates this permission. But as I have said in the first paragraph, I have setted the disk to adming group under Linksys E3000 setup (192.168.1.1), which means it has full r&w access.
Now the strangest thing about this thing: I have also another computer, that has Windows XP SP3 installed on it. I also have the network disk added to the computer. The diffrence is, that there I am also able to delete folders, that contain files or other folders. It deletes them without any error.
Also if I connect the disk to computer with Windows 7 on it (the one that I have problem deleting folders that have other folders or files inside it), then I can delete this folders without any problem. I would like to point out, that I also tried this on my second computer (laptop), that also has Windows 7 SP1 installed, and it displays the same error, which means that there must be something with Windows 7, otherwise the Windows XP would gave the same error.
I really don't understand why I am able to delete it from Windows XP, but not from Windows 7. The computer, that has Windows XP installed is connected through Linksys E3000 LAN via UTP cable just as is computer, that runs Windows 7. Please help me with my question and thanks for any answers!
Edit:
Adding screenshots of Local Group Policy Editor:
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Is it possible to "map network drive" for Google Drive so it appears as a usual Windows drive in Explorer?
(And on a Mac and Linux?)
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When accessing a network drive over a network, i.e. \\BasementComputer\C$
Why do I need to use the '$', is this just a syntax thing?
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I have a networked drive mapped to "U:\"
I want to go to that drive from a command line.
However, when I try I get an error
C:>u:
The system cannot find the drive specified.
How do I do that? Can I? Is there some Environmental setting I need to do?
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