Mapping of a remote USB thumb drive

[Bob S.]

It was recommended I try this group with my question - so here goes....

Baffled by this one...

I have a script that connects a local system (XP Pro, SP-1) to a remote
system (XP Home, SP-1) using MS VPN. It then maps a drive ( \\server1\c )
and then copies a backup folder to the local machine. Everything works
fine - no problems...

So we added a USB thumb drive to the remote system and I changed the script
to copy files from it back to the local system. It cannot find the thumb
drive.

I have sharing turned on, the share name is ISTIK and I have the script
mapping the local X: drive to \\server1\istik and it can't find it.

I tried changing the share name to a letter so it would be \\server1\g and
still nothing.

The thumb drive is an ISTIK 256Mb and it works fine when connected. Files
can be written and read - no problem.

No other drives are being mapped on either the local and remote. I can use
UltraVNC to verify that the thumb drive has been assigned a drive letter.
It has been installed and left in-place and the remote system has been
rebooted (numerous times). Each time, it's assigned drive letter G:

There is a floppy (a, two hd's (c:, d a DVD (e a CD (f and the ISTIK
drive - (g

I'm missing something obvious here but just don't know what it is... I've
been researching the MS KB and other resources but haven't come across any
articles stating any problems like this. It can be shared locally - why not
mapped remotely?

Thanks for any assistance or ideas you may have,

Bob S.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

posting the result of net view \\remotehostname here may help.

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[Bob S.]

Robert,

Thanks for the suggestion and the site. Had a small glitch (remote system
hung after rebooting) and I can't do anything more from here until I can get
it kick-started in the am. That is one helluva site!

Thank you,

Bob S.