Creating an icon for a mapped drive to a Win2003 Server fails.

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Roger Smith III

We have a share on our Windows 2003 server that we can map network drives to
by using the address

\\192.168.1.100\t$

If we use the map network drive command in My Computer from Windows XP, the
mapping works fine. If we try to do the mapping by creating a shortcut icon
on the desktop of the XP machine (right click on the desktop, click New, and
then Shortcut, and key in \\192.168.1.100\d$ for the location of the item),
we get an error indicating that "the file cannot be found".

How would you go about doing this? This server does not have a FQD name
that we can reference. We need to reference the IP Address.

Thanks.

Rog
 
We have a share on our Windows 2003 server that we can map network drives to
by using the address

\\192.168.1.100\t$

If we use the map network drive command in My Computer from Windows XP, the
mapping works fine. If we try to do the mapping by creating a shortcut icon
on the desktop of the XP machine (right click on the desktop, click New, and
then Shortcut, and key in \\192.168.1.100\d$ for the location of the item),
we get an error indicating that "the file cannot be found".

How would you go about doing this? This server does not have a FQD name
that we can reference. We need to reference the IP Address.

Thanks.

Rog
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A shortcut using an IP address should work fine.

You said that the shortcut is to "\\192.168.1.100\d$". Should that be
"t$" instead of "d$"?

Does connecting to the shared drive require entering a user name? You
can specify a user name when mapping a network drive, but not in a
shortcut.
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We have a share on our Windows 2003 server that we can map network drives to
by using the address

\\192.168.1.100\t$

If we use the map network drive command in My Computer from Windows XP, the
mapping works fine.  If we try to do the mapping by creating a shortcut icon
on the desktop of the XP machine (right click on the desktop, click New, and
then Shortcut, and key in \\192.168.1.100\d$ for the location of the item),
we get an error indicating that "the file cannot be found".

How would you go about doing this?  This server does not have a FQD name
that we can reference.  We need to reference the IP Address.

Thanks.

Rog
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Any shared folder names with "$" seem to tell the Windows that this
is an "administrator" accessable share.
 
You guys must have waved the magic stick over my computer. It now works just
fine.

I right clicked on the desktop, selected New Shortcut. Keyed in

\\192.168.1.100\temptroll.

The server then prompted me for credentials, and the drive mapped fine.

Not sure why it didn't work before.

Thanks
 
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