Oh oh! Big Mistake - Ghost Network Drive

[George Hester]

I signed into my Windows 2000 Server with a Domain User Account. While in
there I "run as" mplayer2.exe with the Domain Admin Account. When I chose
Open in mplayer2 it saw the Network drives that I would have seem if I had
been signed in as the Administrator. The Network drive I chose to open a
media file is not available in the Domain User Account I had signesd in as.
In any case in Windows Explorer I now have an O drive that cannot be
disconnected "Network not found" is the error message. Well I thought I
would just sign into the server with the Admin account and I find the O
drive Network Drive cannot be disconnected "Network not found." Believe it
or not when I select the drive it shows me a drive on a different machine in
my network namely the machine I had used to open the media file when I had
been signed in as a Domain User. Help! How do I get rid of this Ghost
Network Drive?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I signed into my Windows 2000 Server with a Domain User Account. While in
there I "run as" mplayer2.exe with the Domain Admin Account. When I chose
Open in mplayer2 it saw the Network drives that I would have seem if I had
been signed in as the Administrator. The Network drive I chose to open a
media file is not available in the Domain User Account I had signesd in as.
In any case in Windows Explorer I now have an O drive that cannot be
disconnected "Network not found" is the error message. Well I thought I
would just sign into the server with the Admin account and I find the O
drive Network Drive cannot be disconnected "Network not found." Believe it
or not when I select the drive it shows me a drive on a different machine in
my network namely the machine I had used to open the media file when I had
been signed in as a Domain User. Help! How do I get rid of this Ghost
Network Drive?

From a Command Prompt run these commands:
net use * /del
net use /persistent:no

Now reboot your machine to clear past connections.

 

[George Hester]

Yikes! net use */del resulted in:

System error 67 has occurred.
The network name cannot be found.

OK the next one completed successfully. Shutting down. Thanks Pegasus hope
it works. Back in a few.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Note that there's a space between * and /

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:
| Yikes! net use */del resulted in:
|
| System error 67 has occurred.
| The network name cannot be found.
|
| OK the next one completed successfully. Shutting down. Thanks Pegasus
hope
| it works. Back in a few.
|
|
| --
|
| George Hester

 

[George Hester]

Oops. Thanks all its gone. Not a smart thing to do on a Domain Server
since the fix for this requires a reboot.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

As Dave Patrick says, you omitted a space. It may be useful
to make you aware of some general rules when issuing commands
from the command prompt. A command consists of these elements:

- The command itself. If it contains embedded spaces then it
must be surrounded by double quotes:
"c:\program files\microsoft office\office11\winword.exe"

- The parameters. They must separated from each other and from
the command with a suitable delimiter, usually a space:

net.exe use * /del (4 parameters!)

You broke the second rule.