Windows 7 DOS does not show mapped drives

by DOS you mean command prompt?

did you run it as elevated or another user? If so, there might be your reason. One user has mapped drives but the other one doesn't...

so when you map it in windows, do you see it under My Computer?
or are you saying after mapping in windows > you go to cmd > net use and it's just blank with no letter?

what happens if you enter drive letter manually in dos?

I'm mapping this from the "computer" interface and under my login as administrator with domain credentials. The batch process I execute from DOS requires me to open DOS with a "run as administrator" option. So JurajUQU raises an interesting thought, perhaps because I'm loading DOS as a local administrator but have mapped the drive as a domain account administrator could be causing the issue.

In Dos try the following:

net use z: \\servername\share /user:domain\username password


or alternatively - shift + right click cmd shortcut > run as different user.  Use domain credentials this time.

There is a policy which says whether an administrative, elevated app can see the non-elevated drive mappings etc. In domain environments this is often switched on using group policy to stop issues lke this:

Hmm, seems to have been filtered from posting on phone, trying again... if the linke doesn't work again you are looking for 'EnableLinkedConnections' policy / registry setting:

 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee844140(v=ws.10).aspx

Thanks for the replies, I did make an entry in the registry as suggested by Microsoft in the article posted by dragon-it but no luck. I've attached a snippet of the DOS screen returned message.
DOSNetworkDriveIssue.JPG

Interesting, that does look like the sort of effect you see with linked accounts.  What happens if you remove all drive mappings from elevated prompt with net use * /delete, reboot, log back in.

Normal cmd.exe prompt will presumably show drives OK with net use, then what about run-as-admin one?

When you do run-as-admin is it just a "yes" or do you have to login with a different user account?  Actually I see now you are running it as a different user, the local admin.  In which case it's not going to work IMO.  If the local admin user account matches a user/password on the network you can do net use or pushd \\server\share and it will use that user/password like in a workgroup situation to logon.

Any reason why you can't use a domain account to login for the UAC prompt?

Steve

Hi Steve,

For some reason the process that registers DLL's and OCX's seem to fails during the OCX registration if not running DOS as local administrator. The mapping problem is certainly not a show stopper as I'm able to map using the net use command, I just found it to be curious that UAC seems to be getting in the way and I'm always interested in digging in to find the reason or reaching out to my experts link for your comments.

Thanks for the great feedback and tips.

Brian