Windows 10: Mapped drives not working in Windows 11

Not being able to access your mapped drives on a Windows computer is a serious issue. It prevents you from accessing files stored across computers or enjoying easy file-sharing over the network. In most cases, the problem can be quickly resolved with a restart. However, fixing such mapped drives in Windows 11/10 can sometimes be […]

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Work Mapped drives not working at home.


Hello All.

I have a user at work that has a laptop as her main work use (docking station at work, then takes it home to work at home).
we have a list of mapped network drives that we use here, including a personal drive.

however when this user gets home or off the network, the personal drive seems to become inactive/go missing.

there are no USB drives that interfere with the network drives, and i am lost looking for solutions.

any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

 

Windows 11 Pro cannot browse to a mapped drive using Add Printer wiard

I'm hoping someone can assist.

At my work, all of the printer network drivers are stored on a shared network drive.

On Windows 10, the process was:

1. map a drive on the PC where the network drivers are stored

2. On the Windows PC, we go to:

2. Control Panel -> Devices and Printers -> Add a printer -> The printer I want isn't listed

3. -> Add a printer using an IP address or hostname, then click Next

4. -> Select TCP/IP Device from drop-down list

5. -> input the IP Address (ie 10.11.176.226), then click Next

6. -> click "Have Disk" button

7. -> click "Browse" button

8. -> click the drop-down box and select the mapped drive

9. -> navigate to the correct folder containing the network driver

On Windows 11, the above process works until step #8. In step #8, the mapped drive is not listed.

Windows Firewall is "on", but turning it "off" makes no difference.

Network Discovery is "on", but it makes no difference.

As a work-around, I must copy the folder containing the printer drive to the Windows 11 PC, complete all the steps to install the printer, then delete the folder from the PC.

Can anyone assist on how to allow Windows 11 to browse to a mapped drive from the Add Printer wizard?

 

Mapped Drives Issues

To clarify .... the issue is the Windows 10 OS. It is with Windows File Explorer. The Mapped drives used to appear in File Explorer's left panel list of drives and folders. Two days ago File explorer stopped show the mapped drives. so not they don;t appear in the list of Drives and folders.

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I did, it has no effect. I also check the NAS devices they support SMB 2.0. Also I have several other computers on my home network they work fine with the mapped drives and They do not have SMB 1 turned on. So it is something that happened to the computer in question.