A strange issue came in today from some users. At least two Windows 7 x64 boxes that have duplicate mappings of a network drive. The drive is not mapped with a log in script, but done manual through "Map Network Drive". Everything has been fine for months, but all of the sudden, Explorer looks like this:
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (S:)
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (T:)
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (U:)
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (V:)
- Files (\\otherServerPath) (W:)
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (X:)
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (Y:)
- Files (\\fileServerPath) (Z:)
There are some other networks drives mixed in there that did not duplicate. The drive is normally mapped to S:\, but it decided to make its way to Z:.
What is going on here?
I've found this and will be trying soon:
Best Answer
I know this is super old, but I just had a user have a similar problem. I was able to figure out the issue and show the user how to prevent this from happening.
The user had a mapped drive to a server share:
\\servername\share = Z:\
For some weird reason throughout the day she would end up with a
V:\
,W:\
,X:\
, andY:\
(and sometimes more) along with theZ:\
.After troubleshooting, trying to recreate the issue I figured out she had about 6 shortcuts to shares for other folders on the server, under the
\\servername\share
directory.I clicked on them all and opened them, one gave me a
cannot open/find the share
type of message. I then checked Computer and there was aY:\
drive. I disconnected and tried to open the broken share. Sure enough every time I double-clicked on the broken shared folder shortcut I would get the error and a new mapped drive letter to same location asZ:\
. Even right-clicking on the share, without selecting any option will create a new Mapped drive letter to the same location as the originalZ:\
.