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October 15th, 2014, 10:33 PM
#1
Mapped Network Drive Problem
I recently purchased an online storage account and had to set up a mapped network drive in order to make use of the account.
I am working on Windows 8.1 / 64 bit
I mapped the network drive (Z exactly as instructed by the online storage account host. Whenever I try to move files into the network drive I get an error message that it cannot read the source file or disk. I have not been able to move any type of file into the network drive without this error. I called GoDaddy tech support and the verified that I had set everything up correctly. I tried turning off the firewall to see if that would make a difference and it did not. No clue here. Any suggestions?
Please be aware that I am not an IT person - just a layperson trying to find an answer the GoDaddy techs couldn't help me with. Hate to think I wasted the money on the account and can't use it now.
Thanks
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October 16th, 2014, 06:50 AM
#2
Super Moderator
Welcome to WinDrivers.
Do you get an error when trying to do the same copy operation to a local drive, such as a USB flash drive?
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October 16th, 2014, 11:52 AM
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No. I can copy and paste fine on the local drive. Since the post yesterday I made sure sharing was enabled on my c: drive (it wasn't), ran chkdsk (no errors detected) , and tried adding the day address as a network location. No change yet. Thanks for the reply.
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October 16th, 2014, 01:33 PM
#4
Super Moderator
Don't recommend sharing your entire C: drive with anyone. Especially any folders containing your Operating System files.
I'm afraid I have no idea how GoDaddy goes about letting you map a drive letter on your computer to your account's partition on their server. I've always used FTP (file transfer protocol) myself.
Hopefully someone that has a clue will be along soon and offer some insight.
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October 17th, 2014, 08:23 AM
#5
Registered User
I have a website and domain with GoDaddy. I also have storage area in which I will put files to use later on. The only way I know to put the files in, is to use an ftp program with the user ID and logon password. Otherwise you will not be able to gain access to the server.
It's not the computers that keep having problems, it's the users!!
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October 17th, 2014, 08:38 AM
#6
Super Moderator
Core FTP LE is one free Windows FTP client that works well.
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October 18th, 2014, 09:32 AM
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Registered User
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