I have a new Dell Optiplex running Win XP Pro. When ever I attach a USB compact flash card reader, I have tried 3 different ones, the workstation after aperiod of time stops being able to connect to a drive on the server on a wired Lan. When I disconnect the USB device the mapped drive works again. I've loaded all the latest Win XP patches and the latest Bios and drivers from Dell and I still have the same problem. This problems happens on all 4 workstations on the LAN. Any ideas?
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USB and Mapped Drive on a Win XP Pro Worksation
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IslandCustom
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Is the USB device being assigned the same letter as the mapped network drive? Mine did that and I needed to go into Manage and manually change the USB device to a different drive letter -- I picked X: since it was easy to remember. Now, every time I plug it in it becomes my X: drive and not my E: drive, which happend to be a mapped network drive.
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The last card reader I installed was an 8-1 reader that created 3 drives. I named them M, N and O and the networked drive is F. So there does seem to be a conflict, because they work together for severale hrs to a whole day. Thanks for the idea, it was my first idea also. Thanks.
IslandCustom
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Sorry it didn't work, Mike. It seems that USB devices and mapped network drives seem to be a common problem. I'd be curious to learn of the solution, so please post it if you find one. Good luck to you.
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