humbletech99 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 I can't disconnect some drives that are mapped on a WinXP Pro workstation. I wanted to remove the drive mapping names as they were badly outdated and so deleted the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions where the entries were found and then rebooted.Now the connections show up as "Disconnected Network Drive" but all still work. However, I can't disconnect any of them and the "Disconnected Network Drive" will not update to the name of the machine/share even when I go into the share and use it.Really, this is a test machine because I wanted to apply a reg via policyto clear out the strings on logon/logoff so that these were fixed all over the company. I don't understand why this thing is misbehaving though, the key get's recreated and has the name of one machine, but not the others...Any ideas how I can fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 Start > Run > cmd > net use x: /delete (x being the shared drive letter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humbletech99 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I have already tried that but it says that the network drive cannot be found.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 have you ever made a backup of the registry? [if so, try putting it back]if not: try Windows System Restore [start > Programs > Accesoires > System Tools] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humbletech99 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 have you ever made a backup of the registry? [if so, try putting it back]if not: try Windows System Restore [start > Programs > Accesoires > System Tools]you're right of course, but I don't have a backup and I don't have any system restore point for a long time, also, I need to be able to find a solution this without wimping out since I need to try this on real hosts soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 ok i understand, and that is a good reason to start making backups at certain points [it works really well!]try searching google: [i found some posts by you]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172975http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308582{these arent all the usefull results}i also found this, which kinda looks like your problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humbletech99 Posted January 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 The microsoft ones are standard and were how I originally tried to disconnect the drive. The groups answer looks promising and I will try it tomorrow when I am back at work. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 How did you originally map the drive(s) - with the Windows Explorer function, or the subst command, or the net use command? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humbletech99 Posted January 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 How did you originally map the drive(s) - with the Windows Explorer function, or the subst command, or the net use command?net use. but I then deleted the registry key ComputerDescriptions from under Explorer in HKCU to try to clear the cache of mapping names out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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