Windows 10: Unable to 'right click -> new' in file explorer within mapped drives. Navigating to same...

Unable to 'right click -> new' in file explorer within mapped network drives. Navigating to same UNC path 'right click -> new' works just fine. Able to write to mapped drive via powershell.The share is presented to our windows clients using samba. I am confident the smb configuration is correct. permissions and ntfs acls should be in order.

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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.

 

Unable to delete old mapped drive

I have an old orphaned mapped drive I can't get rid of in Explorer/Network. I had mapped a drive to a USB drive plugged into a Netgear Router. The router fried and I replaced it and the mapped drive is now orphaned.





In addition to that the tem is listed in the network twice. The second entry is the problem. The first entry is fine and file sharing works.

If I "disconnect" I get an error:




If I use "net use" and delete by drive letter it fails, but if I delete by name it indicated it's successful but it's not.




I've delete the registry entries in MountPoints and MountPoints2 but no joy.


Anybody got any idea?

 

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.