| Title: | Windows NT |
| Notice: | See note 15.0 for HCL location |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN .com::FOLEY |
| Created: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6086 |
| Total number of notes: | 31449 |
There seems to be a problem when creating a shortcut on one computer and then trying to use it on another. I have multiple Alpha stations 255 that are set up with NT 4.0 SP 2. MSOffice and other aplication are all installed in the same manner. Whenever I create a short cut on one machine(1stcomputer) like the Tool Bar and then try to run this short cut on another computer(2nd computer) the shorcut refers to \\1stcomputer\F$\MSOffice\office\msoffice.exe instead of f:\MSOffice\office\msoffice.exe And of course you know that the F$ share is not accessable by normal users. Any help and/or ideas on solving this problem would be great. Turing off the F$ share seems to solve this problem but there are a lot of workstation at this site and I would like to have access to there drives from my server. Thanks for any help in advanced Very confused. Jeff Beaupre [email protected] [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 5789.1 | WBC::GOODEN | Gene Gooden | Sat Apr 05 1997 11:27 | 26 | |
What causes the change in .1 to take place? I have this occuring on shortcuts that point to my local C drive. I create the following shortcut on workstation WBCGL3 in domain WBCDOM. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" When I try to use this shortcut from WBCGL1 in domain WBCDOM it changes the shortcut to "\\WBCGL3\c$\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" This also is the case for most of my other shortcuts. Unless I physically remove the shortcuts and recreate them they will always try to get to WBCGL3. If I look at the shortcut properties after I login to another workstation in my domain (but before I double-click on it) the path is correct. Once I execute the shortcut the path is changed to point to the workstation on which I created the shortcut. Also if a change the shortcut back to C:\ the next time I execute that shortcut it changes to \\WBCGL3\c$. Only physically deleting and recreating fixes it. I have roaming profiles setup on my domain controller WBCNT. Domain Control runs WNT4.0 server, all Workstations run WNT4.0 Workstation. Service pack 2 installed on all machines. Profiles set to \\WBCNT\Users\%USERNAME% Can someone give me a clue as to what is going on. thanks for any help, gene gooden | |||||
| 5789.2 | Try Knowledge Base Q158682 | motorzen.mco.dec.com::WYLIED | Generic Specialist | Mon Apr 07 1997 08:45 | 7 |
Try Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q158682, "Shortcuts Created Under NT 4.0 Resolve to UNC Paths". Good luck, Dave Wylie. | |||||
| 5789.3 | WBC::GOODEN | Gene Gooden | Thu Apr 10 1997 14:38 | 3 | |
Thanks for the reply, I will check it out tonight. gene | |||||