mapped drives do not appear

[Stephen L Arnold]

When the world was young, Scott Gasch carved some runes like this:

> I am having trouble with samba (version 2.0beta4) and I thought
> someone might have seen this before.  From client PCs (win98
> and winnt 4.0) I am able to see my samba server in net hood.  I
> am able to browse the shared filesystems.  I am able to map 
> drives.  However, when a network drive is mapped to a local
> drive on a PC, it does not appear in the drive list in
> explorer.  In a shell you can change to N: and see files.
> In apps you can save to/read from N:.  But explorer does not
> see the mapped drive... on either NT or 98.

Does the Net Hood view match the explorer list of machines?  ie, 
are the machine lists out of sync?  I've been told that it's not 
supposed to happen, but I've seen it on my windoze box.  A friend 
of mine's solution is to remove all the network protocols from the 
client and re-install them.  Windoze really shouldn't corrupt 
itself like that, but I've seen it happen with other software 
(including parts of windoze) and we all know what a poor design it 
is...

If the samba box shows up in *both* explorer and net hood, then you 
should be able to use explorer to map a network drive, which should 
appear in explorer's list of drives within a few seconds.

We've been having different (and intermittent) network problems for 
a while (which I'm convinced are *not* due to samba), and one of 
the first things to screw up is browsing (although the IP layer 
works fine - we have no NetBEUI or IPX).  I'm pretty sure it's a 
hardware problem (but I don't have the knowledge to sniff the 
network yet); things seem to be getting a little better as the coax 
gets changed over to UTP.

I'm not sure if this was helpful (but one can always hope).

Later, Steve


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Stephen L. Arnold                        Senior Systems Engineer
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