We have many computers in a Domain and all open all mapped drives quickly. We have 1 computer that opens all mapped drives quickly except for 1 mapped drive (which is on the same server as the other ones.) In researching I opened a command prompt and did a netstat - and found a TCP session attempted to start to a non-existant computer in the domain. I suspect that after about 30 seconds or more, it times out and then the folder opens on the server. I'm trying to find out where the reference to that non-existant computer name is so I can remove it and hopefully solve the problem. I've searched for that computer name in the registry and it doesn't show up. Any ideas where else to look? Thanks.
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It's not related to the AD - if I map the drive to another letter it works fine; if I map it to the same (old) letter it hangs. I need to find where this information is kept to delete it and it seems not to be in the registy or I don't know where in the registry.
I disconnect the drive; If I remapp it to another letter all is well; if I remapp it to the same drive letter the problem reappears. Searched through the registry and can't find where the mapping is. Anyone know?
and then a sub folder for the actual Drive, Say I have a P drive mapped to \\Server\Photos I will have the following Reg Keys:-
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Network\p] "RemotePath"="\\\\server\\photos" "UserName"=dword:00000000 "ProviderName"="Microsoft Windows Network" "ProviderType"=dword:00020000 "ConnectionType"=dword:00000001 "DeferFlags"=dword:00000004
If you go to the command line, and type net use, you'll see all of the mappings in use, as well as some of the shares. That way, if you want to remove mappings, you can do net use Z: /delete hope this helps
Thanks, will look into that. Problem got solved by changing Windows Explorer from Show Common Tasks in Folder to Windows Classic Folders under Tools->Folder Options. When it shows the common tasks it displays a Play Video as a common task for that mapped drive; when that is closed it just opens the mapped drive immediately. When I switch back to Show Common Tasks problem reappears.
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Opening Mapped drive on 1 computer is slow
Thanks.