Network Drives not woking

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CovenStine
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Network Drives not woking

#1 Post by CovenStine » 27.03.2022, 15:17

Hello,
I've done some searching, and have come up blank, but I'm rather confused.
I've been using FC for a while on all 3 of my regular-use windows boxes, and ONLY on my surface am I having this issue.
I have 5 shares from 3 devices that I've mapped and are persistent, fully visible in Windows Explorer and that were mapped by the user under which I've logged in, and they never show up in the drive bar of FC.
I've tried disconnecting and reconnecting the shares, uninstalling FC and reinstalling...
All of my machines are Win10 x64, running the x32 FC

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Re: Network Drives not woking

#2 Post by pav » 11.05.2022, 08:43

Hello, I have the same issue. Have you found a solution yet?

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Re: Network Drives not woking

#3 Post by alexis92 » 11.05.2022, 20:01

By network drives you mean cloud service drives like Google Drive, or do you mean local media servers in your home, like a NAS system?

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#4 Post by pav » 11.05.2022, 21:24

Yes, I mean network drives like NAS. I asigned letters to them, in my system, and I can see them with windows explorer, or with "Unreal Commander", but not with FreeCommander.

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#5 Post by Karol » 11.05.2022, 21:39

Have you tried to make the mapping in FreeCommander: https://freecommander.com/fchelpxe/en/C ... drive.html

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#6 Post by Foxfan20 » 22.07.2023, 10:34

Somewhat later in time, but I have a similar problem, but only in "seeing" my new NAS drive immediately after I have selected it in Free Commander.

W11 Pro, 22H2, FC 891 64-bit.

I can map my NAS network shares/storage in Free Commander. as described in the Help link above, and these will appear in Windows Explorer. However, I cannot see them immediately, and therefore select them, in the volumes list in Free Commander, despite refreshing, unless I close and restart Free Commander, at which point they appear in the lettered volumes. I understand why this may be happening, and although it isn't a big problem, it would be good to be able to see them straight away in FC. This would then allow me to work immediately (mainly moving and copying) on files and folders between my resident SSD drive(s) in one window and my NAS folders in the other, in the same way that I would, for example, between my SSD and USB-attached external storage devices.

In Settings, for Network I have enabled "Use FreeCommander...", "Show hidden..." and "Use cache...". In "Drives" setting, "Show network as drive" is enabled and there are no other settings which I think may affect this. The empirical proof is that the network NAS folders I have selected or enabled will appear, but only after restarting FC.

I have looked at the various possibilities in Windows, but none seem to relate to how this works in Free Commander. I'd be grateful if anyone could let me know if there is a way around this.

Thanks.

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#7 Post by Foxfan20 » 01.08.2023, 10:14

I think I have answered my own question in some respects, but not necessarily with all the answers I needed.

Although I show Network among my locations, I could not access it, as it threw an SMB error. My Network setting was "Use Free Commander for network loading". I changed this to "Use Windows shell..." and the various network devices immediately became visible and accessible (where relevant).

However, to see the network in full, I had to restart FC, but I think that this may have been down to the sequence of changes I made. I'm hoping that a "cold start" of FC immediately after starting up the system will straight away give me the full inventory of networked devices, especially my NAS. I'll post again when I have checked this, as it may help anyone experiencing a similar problem, now or in the future.

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#8 Post by mcleaver » 05.08.2023, 16:49

You write: "Although I show Network among my locations, I could not access it, as it threw an SMB error. My Network setting was "Use Free Commander for network loading". I changed this to "Use Windows shell..." and the various network devices immediately became visible and accessible (where relevant)."
Where is this setting? In Windows or FreeCommander?

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#9 Post by Foxfan20 » 05.08.2023, 16:54

It's in FC under Tools>Settings>Network.

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#10 Post by mcleaver » 05.08.2023, 17:05

Thanks! Found it. In fact I have now managed to make it work doing exactly the opposite (changing from WS to FC). I did have to reconnect the drives in FC (they are already connected in Explorer) and then restart FC.

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#11 Post by Foxfan20 » 05.08.2023, 17:19

That's good. Apart from the contrary setting, my situation and solution (seen in Explorer, but needs FC restart) are identical.

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#12 Post by mcleaver » 05.08.2023, 18:27

Not quite so good, I fear. I restarted the computer and was back to square one, So I tried your way -- back to WS. But after restarting again, the links were gone again. This works fine on my old PC. I set up the mapping years ago and it sticks, but not on the new replacement PC.

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#13 Post by mcleaver » 05.08.2023, 18:38

But when I turned off "open as administrator" it does work, Strange, As i can open as admin on the other PC and see all the drives.

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