Jens Baumann
June 12th 03, 10:08 PM
For some time now, I am stumped by a weird Explorer
behaviour when using the "connect network share" dialogue.
Scenario: I have a LAN with several Windows machines -
2000 and XP. XP is SP1 with all hotfixes, 2000 is SP3 with
all hotfixes. All German. The problem occurs when using
Explorer on an XP machine to connect to a network share on
another machine. It is unimportant whether the other
machine is 2000 or XP, whether the share is an
administrative share or a "real" one. But it does ONLY
occur with XP Explorer, not when using Explorer on 2000.
It is best to show a pic:
http://oops.d2g.com/pics/weird.jpg
I use the "connect network share" dialogue. Explorer
connect to the share apparently correctly (see DOS box),
but it does not show the new network drive in the drive
tree (the "f$ on SAURON (W:)" text is missing) and when I
open up properties for the drive, it shows the network
drive as "RAW" instead of "NTFS". I can use the drive
normally for reading, but when I try to copy something to
the drive which is using long filenames, I get the "this
drive only supports 8.3 filenames" error.
When I close Explorer and open it up again, everything is
shown correctly.
I searched for wrong network settings, tried it from
various clients to various other machines - it is always
the same. Even a completely fresh install without any
support packs/hotfixes did not change anything. The
hardware of the machines is not the same (homebuilt
machines with ASUS boards and either 3com or Intel NIC).
Anybody else seen this error? Am I going insane?
behaviour when using the "connect network share" dialogue.
Scenario: I have a LAN with several Windows machines -
2000 and XP. XP is SP1 with all hotfixes, 2000 is SP3 with
all hotfixes. All German. The problem occurs when using
Explorer on an XP machine to connect to a network share on
another machine. It is unimportant whether the other
machine is 2000 or XP, whether the share is an
administrative share or a "real" one. But it does ONLY
occur with XP Explorer, not when using Explorer on 2000.
It is best to show a pic:
http://oops.d2g.com/pics/weird.jpg
I use the "connect network share" dialogue. Explorer
connect to the share apparently correctly (see DOS box),
but it does not show the new network drive in the drive
tree (the "f$ on SAURON (W:)" text is missing) and when I
open up properties for the drive, it shows the network
drive as "RAW" instead of "NTFS". I can use the drive
normally for reading, but when I try to copy something to
the drive which is using long filenames, I get the "this
drive only supports 8.3 filenames" error.
When I close Explorer and open it up again, everything is
shown correctly.
I searched for wrong network settings, tried it from
various clients to various other machines - it is always
the same. Even a completely fresh install without any
support packs/hotfixes did not change anything. The
hardware of the machines is not the same (homebuilt
machines with ASUS boards and either 3com or Intel NIC).
Anybody else seen this error? Am I going insane?