- Nov 27, 2017
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Hi, I reinstalled Windows 8.1 pro on my PC at work. I work for a software company and I am assigned Windows 8 support for people running our software. I have ran into a issue of able to access my network drives from installed programs in Windows 8. I created 4 mapped drives in window explorer, I need to provide user name and password to get into these drives. This works fine in windows explorer, but after logging into the drivers I cannot see the mapped drives if I try to access a file from an installed program off of one of these mapped drives, the mapped drives just don't show up as a option to choose. This was never a problem in the previous 2 reinstall of windows 8 over the last 10 years, I just did a straight install, no special settings/options as I have done 100's of times on my PC and other employees PC's, the only thing I did change is I specified this PC is part of a workgroup, but again this is not something out of the ordinary, I used the same workgroup as I always do.
The 2 programs I am having trouble of accessing a file is access 97 (don't laugh, our company database is still based on it, so no choice) , I have to run the workgroup admin utility and specify the IP address of the mapped drive where the system file is located and join the group daily to be able to gain access to the database on the mapped drive. Once I do this, it is good until I fire-up the PC in the morning.
The, other program is Symantec endpoint, I tried to access the managed communication file and no mapped drives were available in the search window. and find the server and folder where the file was. Then I was able to add the sylink file to antivirus.
Does any body have a 'sitting right there staring at you' solution to not having access in programs to mapped drives, but they are accessible in file explorer fine?
Thanks
Stephen
The 2 programs I am having trouble of accessing a file is access 97 (don't laugh, our company database is still based on it, so no choice) , I have to run the workgroup admin utility and specify the IP address of the mapped drive where the system file is located and join the group daily to be able to gain access to the database on the mapped drive. Once I do this, it is good until I fire-up the PC in the morning.
The, other program is Symantec endpoint, I tried to access the managed communication file and no mapped drives were available in the search window. and find the server and folder where the file was. Then I was able to add the sylink file to antivirus.
Does any body have a 'sitting right there staring at you' solution to not having access in programs to mapped drives, but they are accessible in file explorer fine?
Thanks
Stephen
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