Windows 10: windows 11 pro cant map drive.

Greetings Community,I migrated my user over to a new machine and cannot for the life of me get his machine to see the shared drive we all used. Server, and other drives show but his daily "shared" drive is not showing up. I can ping the drive and see it, but it does not show up, and I cant manually add the IP address.All sharing options are on, and permissions are correct. Can someone help?

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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?

 

Why can I map a drive from windows 11 pro to windows 7 pro but can not to windows 8.1?

I can map a drive from windows 11 pro to windows 7 pro but I can not map drive from windows 11 pro to windows 8.1?

 

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.