Mapped network drive not opening

[Guest]

I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows XP SP2.
The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe by browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.

How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

 

[Plato]

How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

Networking - General

http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04


Networking - NT/XP Specific

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx

 

[Plato]

How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

Networking - General

http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04


Networking - NT/XP Specific

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx

 

[Guest]

I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows XP SP2.

The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe by browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.

Networking - General

http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04


Networking - NT/XP Specific

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx

None of those helped. I do not have any problems setting up a network, it
is just the error that I described above when Mapping a Network Drive.

 

[Plato]

None of those helped. I do not have any problems setting up a network, it
is just the error that I described above when Mapping a Network Drive.

That's because you DID NOT READ them. I only posted them 2 minutes ago.

 

[Guest]

That's because you DID NOT READ them. I only posted them 2 minutes ago.

Twenty minutes, which is plenty of time to read them. I did not find any
relevant material as to why a Mapped Drive suddenly stops working. I am
using the same method of creating Mapped Drives that I did last week on
another computer and it worked. Now it asks which program to use when
opening a mapped network drive. If one of those tutorials deals with this
issue please point out which and where, because I could not find anything
that even came close.

 

[Plato]

opening a mapped network drive. If one of those tutorials deals with this
issue please point out which and where, because I could not find anything
that even came close.

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[Guest]

I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows XP SP2.
The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe by
browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.

I have mapped a network drive like this before and it works. Also I have
had a previously working mapped drive give me this error as well.

Why does it now ask for a program to use?
How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

 

[Sunny]

=?Utf-8?B?ampfd29sdmVu?= wrote:

That's because you DID NOT READ them. I only posted them 2 minutes ago.

Actually it was more than 20 minutes, are you normally this arrogant ?
(or are you looking over the OP's shoulder ?)

 

[kwd]

jj_wolvenwrote
I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Window
XP SP2.

The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Window Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.ex by
browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.

I have mapped a network drive like this before and it works. Also have
had a previously working mapped drive give me this error as well.

Why does it now ask for a program to use
How can I make a mapped network drive always connect usin

explorer.exe

I had the same issue on a machine running XP Pro and a friend found
solution, maybe it will work for you. In the registry editor I did
search for a key called MountPoints2. Under that key are liste
mapped resources, and a subkey to the one in question there was
_Autoplay and a Shell key. After deleting both keys and saving th
registry, it worked as normal