Missing drive letter when mapping drives in XP

[M_10]

Hi,

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1 on a laptop. When I'm logged into the
domain (or from home with my domain credentials) and I map a drive,
there is an icon in Explorer representing my mapped drive, but there
is no drive letter icon or a label for the drive (ie. 'Sharename on
Server'). Then when I try to copy a file to that drive I get the
"this version of windows doesn't support long file names" error. The
same thing happens on my home desktop which is also running XP Pro
SP1. When I login with a local account on my laptop, however, I can
map drives no problem. The only thing I've found that fixes this is
to kill Explorer.exe through task mgr and then restart it. Then all
of the drives I have mapped suddenly appear with the correct labels.
I thought it was a nonlocal domain policy causing this until the same
thing happened to my home PC which is in a workgroup. I've seen a
couple posts on this topic but nobody ever responds to them w/
answers. Can anyone help me? Microsoft?

Thanks

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Possible:

Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View/Advanced Settings

If Launch folder windows in separate process is checked, clear it.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Doug you are the man. It worked. thanks.

Possible:

Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View/Advanced Settings

If Launch folder windows in separate process is checked, clear it.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP