Windows 10: Problems with mapped drive

I have a mapped drive in Windows 10 that works when doing anything within the drive itself, viewing, editing, deleting etc. But when I try and copy to or from the mapped drive I get and error.





The mapped disk is on an old legacy box running XP that we are trying to move away from. When trying to copy a file first Windows 10 prompt for admin permission, then displays the copy dialog and then the error pops up.

The error message itself it very misleading stating the drive is unavailable when actually I can access it without any problem through Explorer.

I've tried disabling the UAC in Windows 10 but didn't help, also un-mapped and re-mapped the drive, booted but no luck.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Problems with mapped drive

Well I got one step closer to getting the mapped drive working.

Instead of using Windows 10 File Explorer to map the Network Drive, I do it manually from a Command Prompt run as Administrator:

net use G: \\XP07\XP_Dev

After executing this command I can copy files to and from the mapped drive to the system disk. And while this is a huge step forward there are still other problems with the mapped drive.

Opening a jpg file in Paint by clicking it from File Explorer loads the picture just fine, but I can't save it. When Paint tries to save the file it can't find the mapped drive, it doesn't even show up when browsing for a place to save it.

There are a few links on the web discussing this very issues of not being able to browse a mapped drive from within a program. There is supposed to be a registry fix for this by adding EnableLinkedConnections and settings it's value to 1 but it didn't work.

So the next step after getting File Explorer working is to somehow get programs to see the mapped drive.

 

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.

 

Suggestions for Maps/Drive

Some more suggestions



- When you set a destination in drive, you should be able to set an address which is existing in the contact list

- You should be able to view all step by step navigations. right now you are not able to see complete direction steps.