Topic: usb pen drives on xp domain clients

[veeresh]

Hi,

We have been using sme7 as a domain controller for the last four months.
i have noticed a strange issue.

when we plug in a usb pen drive in an xp domain client machine it some times gets recognised and some times does not get recognised.
when the pen drive is not recognised we log off and log back into the domain then the pen drive gets detected.

any pointers to solve this.

i did a search and found this post in dutch.  I am not sure if it is about the same issue. could some one translate it for me, to english,  if it is about the same issue.

the url for the post is http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32476.0

thanks in advance

[aux2006]

veeresh,

try to check your drive mappings it might be  that the removable drives are mapped same with the mappings in your server drive mappings...

Check My Computer (your computer of course ) by right clicking to it and click manage then look for disk management... there you can see your physical drives and its drive mappings.

aux

[CharlieBrady]

when we plug in a usb pen drive in an xp domain client machine it some times gets recognised and some times does not get recognised.
when the pen drive is not recognised we log off and log back into the domain then the pen drive gets detected.

I don't see that this has anything to do with SME server.  This isn't a Windows XP forum.

[jonroberts]

Vereesh,

I've also experienced this and I'm pretty sure that the cause is as Aux says.

My guess is Drive H: maybe? If you select the network drive that's most likely to be causing the conflict, right-click and choose disconnect & then try connecting the USB drive, it should connect.

You could either change the network drive mappings or you may be able to configure your USB Pen Drive to connect under a different drive letter.

Jon

[mercyh]

I have this problem on a novell network where drive F: is mapped with a login script to the main share on the Novell server.

If I go into "control panel-performance and maint-administrative tools-computer managment-disk management" (doesn't that make you wish for the linux command line? ) and look at the mapped drive letter I find that the local device has the same drive letter as the mapped drive. I can then right click on the local device drive and go to "change drive letter and paths" change the drive to an unused letter, ignore the warnings and everything works fine. This device seems to hold that letter from then on.