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Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com
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My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged

into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and

they work great). Here's what I've tried...

 

- Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND

mine when I'm not connected to the network)

- I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)

- I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)

- I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk

Management)

- The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on

my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15

minutes for this process to happen

- I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it

physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on

other WinXP machines)

- I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't

help

- The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the

same SBS2000 network

 

Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.

 

 

Anybody have any ideas?

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Guest smlunatick
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Re: Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

 

On Mar 3, 1:05 pm, jhun...@huntercomputerinc.com wrote:

> My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged

> into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and

> they work great). Here's what I've tried...

>

> - Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND

> mine when I'm not connected to the network)

> - I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)

> - I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)

> - I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk

> Management)

> - The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on

> my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15

> minutes for this process to happen

> - I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it

> physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on

> other WinXP machines)

> - I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't

> help

> - The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the

> same SBS2000 network

>

> Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.

>

> Anybody have any ideas?

 

Problem is that Windwos XP will start assigning drive letters from D

to Z. This seems to also be that case when attaching to networks /

servers. Look at this: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

 

This will help to let you map the USB drives by letting you to reserve

letters outside of the network drives letters.

Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com
Posted

Re: Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

 

It's NOT that I can't get a drive letter assigned the USB flash drive

(or the network for that matter). It's just that the USB flash drive

takes 15 minutes to open when I'm logged in. And all the network

drives work great.

Guest JockoBailey
Posted

Re: Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

 

 

<jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com> wrote in message

news:e6e429ad-3023-450b-a026-a78312efbc1a@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

> My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged

> into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and

> they work great). Here's what I've tried...

>

> - Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND

> mine when I'm not connected to the network)

> - I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)

> - I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)

> - I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk

> Management)

> - The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on

> my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15

> minutes for this process to happen

> - I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it

> physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on

> other WinXP machines)

> - I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't

> help

> - The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the

> same SBS2000 network

>

> Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.

>

>

> Anybody have any ideas?

 

Ask your Network Administrator if he has disabled USB drives through Group

Policy.

Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com
Posted

Re: Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

 

No he hasn't disabled USB drives. And, these flash drives have worked

correctly on my computer for the last year.

Guest Frankly Scarlett
Posted

Re: Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

 

I've run into this sort of problem with using USB drives on my networked

desktop.

My situation is my desktop has 2 physical drives with one of them having a

restore partition. (C:, D:, and E:)

I have a DVD burner (F:)

The network account I log with assigns G:, H:, I:, and J:. (Novell NetWare)

It also assigns P:, Q:, R:, T:, U:, Y:, and Z:.

Not many letters left over. (K:, L:, M:, N:, O:,S:, V:, W:)

I've had a couple of USB drives that try to become G:, but Windows keeps

displaying the network drives.

One USB drive in particular was encrypted and wanted to map to two drives

with adjacent letters.

I ended up re-formatting it to one drive (no encryption) and then used

Windows to map it to M:

From there, it works "Fat, Dumb, and Happy".

I don't know if this will work under your situation, but it did for mine.

 

 

<jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com> wrote in message

news:e6e429ad-3023-450b-a026-a78312efbc1a@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

> My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged

> into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and

> they work great). Here's what I've tried...

>

> - Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND

> mine when I'm not connected to the network)

> - I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)

> - I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)

> - I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk

> Management)

> - The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on

> my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15

> minutes for this process to happen

> - I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it

> physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on

> other WinXP machines)

> - I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't

> help

> - The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the

> same SBS2000 network

>

> Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.

>

>

> Anybody have any ideas?

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Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com
Posted

Re: Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

 

Resolution

 

I tried everything I could think of to fix my USB flash drive problem.

Nothing worked until I simply turned my USB printer (HP Color LaserJet

1600) off. Once I did, THEN plugged my USB flash drive in, everything

worked normally. When I'm finished with my USB flash drive, I simply

unplug it and turn my printer back on.


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