Thank you for the quick response! I’ve done much of that, but not mapping a network drive. I can try that next and see what happens.
Did you set up anything on your drive before you mapped it, like setting some of your folders as private or shared?
I’m wondering if I need to undo some of that first. In the meantime, I will try this out and let you know how things go. Thanks again for your comments.
from your XP SP3 machine
cpt_paranoia
May 10
Well, since I’m sitting at my XP machine at the moment, I’ll see if I can find the relevant settings.
Open ‘My Network Places’
Run ‘Set up a Home or Small Office Network’
set computer name & description
set WorkgroupName
enable file & printer sharing (I think: I can’t find a way of interrogating this setting). It may be part of the Windows Firewall exceptions, as I appear to have this exception set.
Run ‘File and Printer Troubleshooting’
“I want to use a shared folder that is on another computer, but the folder isn’t listed in My Network Places.”
Sound familiar?
Specifically, do you remember how you set up your UNC path?
No. I don’t think I did anything clever in that respect (I wouldn’t know how, since I’ve never had to play with any of the network settings on my PC).
All my mapped drives have UNCs of the form:
\<ShareName>
That’s it.
In ‘My Network Places’:
I see the two ‘computers’ which are the MyCloud Dashboard and Twonky Server UI.
I see my CD drive as two entries: file and audio disc
I see a folder and a shared folder icon for ‘Documents’ (that I never use…)
I see all the mapped drives for my MyClouds.
I see a shared folder on another PC.
I don’t see any unmapped references to my MyClouds: I have had to map all my shares as drives; that’s fine by me, and, in fact, how I prefer to use it; I very rarelt look at ‘My Network Places’.
I don’t use ANY WD Software to access the MyClouds on my XP and Win7 machines: everything is done using mapped drives to make them transparent to all programs, and FreeFileSync for backup/sync.
To map a drive, I just open File Explorer, hit Tools/Map Network Drive/Browse, then navigate down the hierarchy:
My Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Windows Network\WorkgroupName\MyCloudName\ShareName
and then continue with the mapping.
Do you not see your drive under WorkgroupName?
If you can think of other setting for me to interrograte, I’m happy to do so, provided you tell me how to interrogate them…
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