Duckshins.com » Face Palms https://duckshins.com We Make the Web Work Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:54:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 “The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password”, when trying to connect to a drive remotely. https://duckshins.com/the-network-folder-specified-is-currently-mapped-using-a-different-user-name-and-password-when-trying-to-connect-to-a-drive-remotely/ https://duckshins.com/the-network-folder-specified-is-currently-mapped-using-a-different-user-name-and-password-when-trying-to-connect-to-a-drive-remotely/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:54:21 +0000 http://duckshins.com/?p=54 Continue reading »]]> “The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password”, when trying to connect to a drive remotely.

What a pain!
I know I’m not connected, but it won’t let me connect.
The problem here is with the error message.
Really what they meant to say was ‘there is a share in use that is blocking you. Go to command prompt and type
net use

Anything there?
So delete it
net use /delete /(share name)

Now you’re good to go!

More details here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-networking/the-network-folder-specified-is-currently-mapped/928f6313-fe2c-4d2d-a247-152ec022e062

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