Network mapped drives not available on WIndows 10 TP

Hi B. Hefty,

Thank you so much for posting your query on this forum. I will try my best to assist you with this issue.

From the issue description, it seems like your computer is a part of a domain network. If yes, then we have a separate department where they handle all the issues within the domain network. The IT Professional on the TechNet forum should be able to help you with this issue. So, I would suggest you to post this query on the TechNet Windows 10 Technical Preview IT Pro General Forum from the link given below:

TechNet Windows 10 Technical Preview IT Pro General Forum

Hi Rajesh,

Thank you so much for posting a reply to this topic.  

From the reply, it seems like your response is canned, and doesn't take into account what you are actually looking at.  This computer is not joined to a domain, nor are there any visual clues indicating as such.  The IT professional who posted this included a screenshot that showed an issue with how the operating system presents mapped drives through an application programming interface to applications.  

Hope this is helpful, the computer is standalone, not part of a domain, is currently a virtual machine.  Please get back to us with a relevant response regarding the issue.  We'll be glad to be assisted further.

All joking aside.  There is an impression that Microsoft is looking for feedback, I am giving it.  Do not pass the buck because you 'feel' like the computer may have some setting somewhere that precludes the issue from being handled here.  This is the folly of modern 'customer service' I don't want to get rude with a rep, but if the rep is just droning on, you have to expect a certain response from the customer.

The issue, I have a successfully mapped network drive.  with read/write/delete access, I have a data driven application that depends on this network drive to function.  when the application looks at that network drive, it can't find it, then presents the GUI to find the correct location and I find that the network drive.  Is this a fault of the application calling on the wrong infiormation? (unlikely because some of the top level items are windows 10 unique) or is this a fault of the OS for not presenting a network drive in the same fashion?

Oh damn....

I have exactly the same issue. anyone knows the solution??

mapped drives successfully, but does not shows up on folder browser as in the screenshot.

where in windows 8 it showed up correctly.

I need solutions

I'm having the same problem since upgrading to 9879. A mapped NAS drive that had been working fine suddenly became "Offline", but the drive location can successfully be Ping'd. In fact, opening a CMD shell I am able to modify files on it, even if it says "Offline":

Maybe this can help the gurus here fix the problems quicker! Note that another machine running Windows 7 continues to run fine with the Mapping.

Hi All,

          There is no reply from Microsoft apart from the first most unhelpful response. What is the use of this forum when Microsoft is not looking into the reported problem.

          I have the same problem. I have to access the mapped drive by use \\computer\shareddata instead of a drive letter.

Paul Cheuk.

I've found answer to this.

You need to modify the registry.

1. Open regedit

2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> System

3. On the right, you will see ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin, ConsentPromptBehaviorUser ... etc.

4. click on empty space, ADD DWORD(32bit), then name it "EnableLinkedConnections". Double click it and set the data to 1.

5. Reboot and you will see the mapped drives showing.

This has worked for me.