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by gerry a

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I have two W2K servers running standalone. When mapping an NTFS share from any of these servers onto an XP machine, the share name is blank when viewing the properties of the mapped drive. And for some reason, FAT shares on the same W2k servers (external USB drives) display fine. We have an application that requires the mapped drive to have a name. Any help appreciated! Thanks.

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by softcorp.us

Hi Gerry,

My external USB HDDs exhibit the behavior I described chronically. It is just what you describe in these two questions.

My drives can be accessed just fine, just like yours. The problem is a display issue in Windows Explorer on existing windows. If you open another window as I described, the new window will always show the volume name and other properties correctly.

Did you try this? Did it work for you?

Be sure to right click only as I described. It will not work if you right click on an instance of My Computer in a window that is already open. That's the bug!

What did the problem turn out to be in your case?

Thanks.

-----Steve Jackson

CEO/CSA Software Corporation (Softcorp)

by gerry a

Thanks for your response, but I have no idea. I just cant seem to get this thing to work properly. Looks like an OS reinstall is in order. Thanks for your help.

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