[Irksome]

Hi,

I'm enduring a rather annoying problem here with mapped drives. I am running Windows XP Professional SP2. I have mapped my "My Documents" folder to the letter L, along with a few other folders so I could access them through my other PC's. Now the problem is, whenever I try to save documents or copy files into My Documents, I get the error message "Error, cannot copy to L:\ - Check that the drive is not full or write protected". It isn't full, and I've checked the permissions on the folder and have granted full access to the Administrators group, but I still get that message.

So I just thought it had something to do with the map. I tried to disconnect it, but it comes up with the message: Warning: There are files still open on L:\. If you do not close these files before disconnecting, data may be lost. Continue anyway? - to which I clicked yes to see what would happen, and sure enough all my data was gone. I performed a system restore and all my data is back, but I'm still faced with my initial problem.

I hope that makes sense. I just need to be able to save to My Documents, but this surpasses my knowledge. Any help on this would be greatly apprieciated.

Thanks.

 

[ITpro4470]

Ok now someone will have to back me up on this one because I dont use filesharing everyday but I know with what you're doing there are 2 sets of permissions, the NTFS permissions for the drives AND the sharing permissions you need to have write on both. I am going to have to bust out my windows books to find out how exactly to set those permissions but hopefully this info will jog someones memmory.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

When you shared the folders, what network share permissions did you assign.

It it the computer that they are on that does the writing so you shouldn't need to deal with those types of permissions, only those assigned to the network share.

 

[DoubleHelix]

What is the L drive?
Is this a network drive?
A partition?
An external hard drive?
Did you properly move the system folder My Documents? What steps did you take to do this?
What do you mean when you say you "mapped" My Documents to L:? What exactly did you do?

 

[Bob Cerelli]

From the first post is sounds like the L: drive is simply the network drive letter assigned on the other computers to the shard My Documents folder on yours. Is that correct?

Have you checked the network share permissions?

 

[Irksome]

From the first post is sounds like the L: drive is simply the network drive letter assigned on the other computers to the shard My Documents folder on yours. Is that correct?

Have you checked the network share permissions?

Yes that's correct. I've solved the problem now, I just backed up my entire My Documents folder, removed the map, then created a new folder on my drive and mapped that one. The difference is that this new folder is not a system folder like My Documents, which I think may have had something to do with it.

Thanks for the help guys :up:

 

[ITpro4470]

Glad we can help and thanks for letting us know the solution!!!