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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

Hello...

This is a Windows Explorer bug. The share drive will appear correctly if you open a new Windows Explorer window like this:

1. Start menu.
2. Right click on "My Computer".
3. Choose "Explore".

-or-

1. Desktop.
2. Right click on "My Computer".
3. Choose "Explorer".

Your drive share will appear correctly in the new Windows Explorer window but will continue to appear incorrectly in the old one(s).

Did this work for you?

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by the admiral

One Question: Do the shares end with a $?

Like \\servername\share$

If so, it is by design. Take off the $ at the end, and they will pop out of nowhere.

by gerry a

Thanks for the reply folks, but perhaps I didnt ask the question properly...

The shares appear fine when I browse them, and they map fine as well. The problem occurs AFTER I map the share. Right-clicking on the share and clicking on properties will display a blank volume (or drive) name. I need for the mapped drive to show a valid label.

by gerry a

yes... the XP workstations have the firewall disabled, however we're using a firewall appliance. What port would prevent a mapped share of an NTFS volume from appearing in when a user right-clicks the share from a workstation to view the label?

by kevin.square

In explorer you see share on server1 (I:). But it picks up not the name of the share but the Label of the drive from the server when you look at the properties.

by the admiral

Here is the deal. There are only a few things that can be wrong.

1. ZoneLabs will let you go to the share and nothing shows up.
2. The UserID is not authorized to see the shares.
3. THe user ID is locked out
4. The group permissions are not set appropriatly.
5. The user is not part of the group.

Just had one today where Zonelabs stopped the sharing, and another where the user ID was locked out.

by gerry a

Thank you for responding. It's not a permission problem as I just realized that it's working fine on a few W2k clients but not XP clients using the same login.

I'm going to reinstall the OS. Thanks for your help folks.

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