Posts Tagged ‘mapped network drive’

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Feb23

Mapped Network Drive : FQDN vs. NetBIOS (Who’s Better, Who’s Best)

by Cory Curtis on February 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Techno Noogies, Network, Techno Noogies, OS, Techno Noogies, Software, Techno Noogies, Techno Noogies, OS, Windows

I came across another one of those shake your head in disbelief problems. There are actually some programs out there that won’t work with mapped drives that are mapped using the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). I don’t know how it is that it matters but the program gets errors and won’t run unless the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar09

Mapped Network Drive Disconnects From Server

by Cory Curtis on March 9th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Posted In: Techno Noogies, Network, Techno Noogies, OS, Techno Noogies, Techno Noogies, OS, Windows

I’ve seen a quite few queries on this site for information about network drive mappings timing out and disconnecting. This is usually caused by settings on the server and is common on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers. Microsoft sets the default timeout on network connections to disconnect after 15 minutes to preserve system resources. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep10

Netbios Network Settings – A short how to.

by Cory Curtis on September 10th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Posted In: Techno Noogies, Network, Techno Noogies, OS, Techno Noogies, Techno Noogies, OS, Windows

So you want to map a network drive to one of your computers by name without a DNS server. How is it done? Fully Qualified Domain Name or FQDN uses a prefix or machine name, a domain name, and a suffix of .com, .net, .org, .loc(non-public), an so on. NetBIOS uses only a machine name. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar19

Windows 7 VBS logon script issue “local device already in use”

by Cory Curtis on March 19th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Posted In: Techno Noogies, OS, Techno Noogies, Techno Noogies, OS, Windows

So your having problems with your VBS logon script mapping drives on your new Windows 7 Business edition workstations that your adding to the domain. Me too! For each drive mapping in the script I’d get the error “local drive already in use”. The first pages I read were saying to just disable UAC (User […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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