Mapped network drives not appearing in open dialog


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Hi guys,

I have this bizare problem at a school i work for, for some reason all the machines do not show networked drives that are mapped under my computer when in a open/save dialog in programs like Visual Studio and Office

They are clearly mapped however when you look at them through windows explorer, i have also removed every policy and even tried it under a local user account

So to recap, you can see them through "My Computer" - Correct?

Do the drives display as connected or disconnected network drives? I've seen Antivirus interfere and mark them as disconnected then sometimes programs will filter on this.

Also, try going to Start | run

Go to command prompt by typing cmd

Then type "net use" without quotes.

Do the drives show up through this command?

how are your network drives mapped? Login script - if so what type of login script? (example vb or kix or batch)

The drives appear perfectly in windows explorer, and it seems the Microsoft office common file dialog is working now, however the visual studio browse window is still not working

The drives are mapped in a VBS script as well as the users home drive (H:) they were originally mapped with a bat file as well which also exhibited the same issues, antivirus software would not be the issue due to it being tested with AVG Enterprise, McAfee Enterprise, Nothing

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Your not launching your VB under a different username such as with runas are you? I wouldn't think you would but just checking.

Try this, under c:\ drive create a shortcut to a mapped network drive such as S:\

Then with VB, go to c:\ drive and try that shortcut, see if it displays the files. this will tell you if account VB is lauching with is same that has the network drives mapped...

Sorry i lost you there, can you explain again?

The script is run under the user profiles logon script "newlogon.bat" which has a call "cscript //ledra/netlogon/logon.vbs"

PS. If you type in h:\ and browse the H: drive appears but not the others, it will disappear next relaunch tho

Close your VB program.

Then navigator to your C: drive. From there right click and new Shortcut. For the path on this shortcut type S:\ (i saw you have a S:\ mapped network drive)

Then name it S share

then Open your VB program and again you probably don't see network drives but go to C Drive and find that shortcut you created above named "S Share". click that and see if it displays the files that are located on your S:\ Drive.

If this doesn't work it tells me that the user that is launching VB is the same that is logged in. We'll have to investigate that if thats case.

If it does work, then well, not sure, but we'll go with it. lol

Let me know the outcome.

Ok just tried but since you dont see files only folders in that browser it obviously cant work :p however as i said if you change the start path to S: then it will appear when you press browser..

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