Here is the created network drive from group policy. Now try to test it from Windows 10 and other clients computer. Map network drive windows 10 Map network drive windows 7.
Windows 10 map network drive not working. Create network drive. Map network drive cmd. Unmap network drive windows Windows 10 map network drive missing. Remove mapped network drive. An IT Pro, here is my online knowledge sharing platform. I would like to write and share my experience for computer enthusiasts and technology geeks. Then, I went upstairs and found the shared folder I had put it in from the desktop I created a "notepad" file on my xp desktop.
Created a "folder" and named it "bingo" also. The "Favorites" folder appeared at the top of the list. I clicked on it and the Favorites folder opened Now, whenever I click on any folder or file including the "shortcut to bingo. For example: I clicked on a "shared network folder" and almost deleted it by accident It's of course OK to "select all" and delete all the shortcuts that accumulate over time in the "Recent Places" folder, etc.
So, for example, when I click on the shortcut on my win7 laptop for "bingo. I didn't click on the actual folder, just the bingo. I "right clicked" on it to check the properties thinking the index has just located the shortcut on my desktop maybe Worked Like a Charm, been searching, everyware, and I guess all everyone does is make folders offline which i didnt want, and defeated the whole purpose of haveing a files server.
Way back on 26 August , in you your post relative to the question: "How do I get windows 7 to index a network mapped drive? I had no problems doing what you suggested above on my Winbit Ultimate workstation. Now I have two shares from my NAS showing up under libraries. That is to say, I now have tow UNC paths showing up as libraries.
Or were you implying that, although the UNC path shares would now be in a library, they would remain unindexed by saying above, "5. I have been using the UNC addon since Windows 7 came out because when I first dealt with this issue I was unable to get any Win 7 clients working with Windows Search 4. I have now added a new client that is x64 and the UNC addon will no longer work for me, so I am trying to get the server solution working once again.
Your post is really the only reference I have found to anybody attempting and getting this to work, and I know that when more of my clients start moving to 7, it's going to become a big issue that I need to solve. Anyway, I still cannot get my Windows 7 clients to use a server based index.
I have tried with Windows Search 4 on a DC and I just last night tried it using the Windows Search Service on a R2 box, and my clients will not even allow me to "Show all connections" in indexing options, let alone see the mapped drives. I'm doing this specifically to have the files indexed and I don't care about the Library functionality, but trying to include a folder on either of these two mapped drives will result in a failure becuase the drive is not indexed.
I saw suggested somewhere that I should add the same unc path on the servers that I use on the clients, and I have tried that to no avail. Did you have to do anything to the Win 7 clients to tell it to look at the server index? I've been reading this whole thread hoping to find a solution for the original issue.
All x86 machines all of them running Win 7 work fine which I take as a prove that the search service is running fine on the server. The entire post has many suggestions I really appreciate ANY effort here but nothing one could use to create a "how to"-documentation.
Getting back to the original post: is there any reliable way to have the indexing service include network drives of the user's choice be it NAS, Windows Server share , If there is one good and solid solution, I will be happy to address this to MS to have them create a KB article or at least a blog post.
EDIT: I just tried to add a linked network share in the indexing options panel but the symbolic links are not even listed when browsing my folder structure so I guess this won't work either. Time to start hacking around in the indexing service! Here are the simplest instructions you can follow:. I am using Solaris 11 Express as my server platform so don't have the option of installing Windows Desktop Search.
Do I have any other options;. This I reckon is the exact reason MS came up with libraries - I obviously can't use offline files as my server has 16T available space and my laptop is only GB - I can't move the target location of the local folders as I want to maintain local folders see point 1. I work in an IT department and there's no way we want s of client PCs all, and concurrently, maintaining their own index of a network shared location. The removal of this option from Windows 7 makes a lot of sense to us.
The gist of this thread seems to be that it's not possible our file server is Server , which is a shame. It seems we can achieve a similar effect with Sharepoint. Now, this is fine as it just so happens we are already implementing Sharepoint, although the original intention was as a replacement for our intranet not as a search tool for the file server So, cynicism about MS blocking use of non-MS server devices is, I think, unfounded however, I'm prepared to view cynicism about Sharepoint as an alternative in a different light!
I did the same for my pictures and my documents so all data is stored on the NAS and backed up to the external drive attached to the NAS. This worked perfectly Im shocked at all the work arounds when this was the simpliest and easiest Other than frontsys The win7 library tool also worked, though it seemd to mess up initiallly.. In playing around and remembering how simple it was to change the location of "My Documents" in Windows XP I tried the same thing mentioned above and changed the location of "My Documents" in Windows 7 moving it you a network share.
The only "issue" now is when I click on the Document Library in Windows Explorer I see a note at the top of the screen that says "some library features are unavailable due to unsupported library locations", I would have to assume that it is due to the fact that it is a network location and not indexed.
I am going to revert back to the very original question. Using off-line files is not an option. Doing anything at the server level is not an option. I guess the original question still stands. How do you get Windows 7 to index a network location? There are work arounds but you still wind up, at best, with a network location added to a library that is still not indexed. Microsoft has pulled a lot of short sighted moves in the past but this one seems absolutely ridiculous.
I keep all my user's My Documents on the LAN and see no real need for making them always available off-line. That just generates a ton of useless network traffic and syncronization as mentioned above. I guess what I am asking in a round about way is "is Microsoft aware they made the bonehead move of the century and are there any known plans to fix it"?
Ive been a computer user since Fact is. Yes indexing is importan in what you say As far as documents I pretty much decided not to move them to network.
Admittedly I relize I dont understand the full value of indexing, It does the indexing of the remote drives and provides an 'index' of the content in the new format that Windows 7 requires for remote network indexing.
I repeat -- this is in the help topic that comes up when you ask how to solve this issue on a windows 7 computer -- don't even have to access the internet. Slight problem. My last XP box died a few months ago. Vendors don't sell XP and WinServer is equally obsolete.
MS wll be dropping support for those products in the net too distant future -- so even if you can use them, they will be unsupported and eventually unmaintainable. That's the real issue that I can see -- MS -- is using its monopoly power to lock people out of content on non-MS machines. They have already said that they will not allow new computers running Windows 8 on the 'alpha'?
This way they can control the execution environment and guarantee that the PC is as secure as a gaming console -- it's "locked down", so content producers will feel safe charging much higher prices for content knowing that consumers won't be able to resort to piracy if they raise the price too high. As for my indexing Perhaps they would consider, or perhaps it would be considered for the public good if a WinXP became a commodity OS, as MS has discarded it , and had the source made available to the open source community.
That way, consumers could support the OS and enable crippled OS's like Win7 to access and index content on machines other than MS ones. I have also tried the using reparse points available in 'fsutil' included in Win7 in the cmd line. See 'fsutil reparsepoint', and the 'mountvol' let you mount a foreign drive on an NTFS folder.
I do not believe all 4 permissions on symbolic links are enabled, but you can verify this in the command line using: 'fsutil behavior query SymlinkEvaluation'. That will tell you if "all directions are enabled" Those permissions have nothing to do with getting indexing to work on network drives. The new indexer uses a specific 'file:' only based filter that can tell if something is local or on a network drive. Think about it it -- in explorer -- you can, in 'detail mode', in the columns display turn on a column to display what computer a file is located on -- explorer knows where that file is before you do -- and so does search.
The same mechanism that prevents searching network files also prevents backing up network files While I might like Winbackup if it worked HA another great 'upgrade They ARE backed up on that network drive by me -- I'm my system admin! BUT the backup performed on the server isn't convenient to access on Win7 -- it's 1 archive for all the files -- it is reliable, takes minimal space, and I usually have backups going back months, dailys for weeks -- but only for those things on my network drives.
Windows -- doesn't back up everything reliably -- in fact, on my machine windows backup won't run at all in the GUIm, and can only be run in a 'one-shot - image dump' from the command line. Anyway, Windows 'System Restore' fails regularly for me -- just the other day tried to restore, and it responded 'Catastrophic Failure'.
The spec to write a search program for linux is 'technically' published, but it's seems to have been made deliberately 'obtuse' Looking just now -- it looks like more content has been added This is for home users. You are in the wrong location if you want to ell us how we don't need this as we don't have an IT department.
So I to would like to maintain my home index centrally -- on my linux server where it is safe. I just restored from an image backup for the 3rd time, a last backup from Dec Last time I had the system stable enough to do a backup and it had problems then CD roms not visible.
Before that it was Jun of that I last was able to do a backup! Your silly comment makes it obvious that you don't know what you are talking about. Please go troll somewhere else.
There's enough other forums out there to impress teenagers with your half-knowledge. We here are looking for useful collaboration by professionals, not Microsoft-bashing tinker monkeys blaming their own incompetence on others. Go buy a Mac if that's so much safer. Seems to be more your level anyway. Just this one time.
I'll shut up now. I was referred here from the home forum, since I was told that running a server is a Pro thing. Win7 isn't safe for data in too many ways. Now try to run a full backup on data not on your system disk -- Windows won't do it. Windows XP had a full backup facility -- Win7 doesn't provide full backup for anything not on the system disk and even then it's an image backup -- not a file backup. Clearly you've chugged the Kool-aid. You want useful collaboration?
Notice no one has provided a solution for the base problem. Win7 doesn't index remote drives -- It only queries remote indexes, which means if you have a dumb file server out there not running Windows , you can't index it. So they remove full indexing of your Desktop files remote server , and they don't provide full backups except for images of system disk only.
There are separate handers in the search engine for local files vs. It's gonna all be great -- we'll just be encouraged to move everything to 'the cloud', and nothing will be indexed Unfortunately, these do nothing for the large number of documents we'd like to search -- along with pictures songs etc MS has no problem indexing our content for their purposes, but they remove indexing from consumers to "encourage" them to only put their content on MS controlled machines.
This basically makes "an extra copy of your network files onto your local hard drive" - this is useful for laptops and such. This was proposed in earlier post but unfortunately the link is no longer working. There is a free utility that works for Windows 7 x64 and presumably x32 that indexes network drives and allows you to include them in a Windows library. I would really encourage people to donate to the author, this is a very elegant solution to a very vexing problem.
It's the first step that's a doozy Enable Windows Search Service 4. MS suggests using an older version of windows to do the indexing Sounds painful, no matter how you look at it though Has anyone seen the SLUtil. I stumbled across it recently and it works like a charm. Best of all, being a command line tools you can script it in batch files and run as part of a GPO if on an AD domain. That Offline files setting creates a local cache of those remote folders that you've enabled the setting for.
So if your boot drive is GB, the cache will max at 25GB by default. Offline files will only try to keep as many files as can fit in that cache space - not your whole remote drive s if it's more than that. Instructions are on that page. Used to remove a directory tree.
If the network share is on a server running a Windows Server product, it can be indexed but the index will be on the server. But you can use other search indexing applications, like Archivarius. Good free ones which index file contents don't exist after Google Desktop Search was discontinued.
I was sure MS would fix this for Windows 8. No such luck. It clearly says on the page that all it does is convince windows to put non-indexed locations into libraries. What is the solution to index those drives for faster search? Google should have never discontinued Google Desktop Search.
I can't see why MS would do this. By default it's off for mounted network volumes. Fifteen minutes later I found and typed one command line that turned it on. A few hours later, my Mac searches all of my NAS instantly It works like a charm!. Tested today in Windows 8 Pro. If you're using any of the following OSes for your client and server computers, enabled Windows Search and configure Indexing Service appropriately; there is no need to index network share on the client pc s. The Windows Search on the server side will handle search request for the client thus enhancing query results much faster.
Of course, if one finds a fully compatible Linux Search service that is able to index Windows OSes files, wouldn't be a surprise. But I doubt as of this time there is one without a hiccup. It simply is not the most convenient, efficient and economical alternative available. ASUS and MSI are mine because these are the ones available in my locale, of course, many others are out there to choose from.
Thanks for your feedback. Can someone help me. Please can anyone help me This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 2. This will assign to your network drive a letter that you can use to identify it later. Click Browse…. This option is on the right side of the window. A pop-up window will appear. Select a folder to use for your drive. Click the computer on which you want to create the drive, then find the folder that you want to use and click it to select it.
Click OK. This option is at the bottom of the window. If you receive an error, the folder that you chose is not shareable. This may happen because the folder is read-only. Click Finish. It's at the bottom of the window. Doing so will create your network drive and enable it for any networked computers. If your computer ever changes to a different channel on your network, you'll need to reestablish the network drive. Access the drive on other network computers. As long as the other computers on the network have network discovery and file sharing enabled, you'll be able to open the drive by going to This PC and double-clicking the network drive folder below the "Devices and drives" heading.
Method 2. Open the Finder. Click the blue, face-like icon in your Mac's Dock. Select a folder. Click a folder on the left side of the Finder window to open it, then click a folder that you want to use as the network drive to select the folder. Click File. It's a menu item at the top of the screen. Clicking it prompts a drop-down menu. Click Get Info. You'll find this in the File drop-down menu. Doing so opens a window with the folder's information.
Copy the folder's location. Click Go. This menu item should be at the top of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear. If you don't see Go in the menu bar, open a new Finder window to make it appear. You can also click the desktop.
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