Perhaps I misjudged Windoze networking....


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EDNEDN
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Posted: 03:28am 25 Jun 2025      

Also...   There has been a shift in how Windows treats networked drives.   Recently they have changed their methodology.    It used to be that unless you had an actual account on the machine you wish to map a drive to, you couldn't easily get a connection.    But that was so restrictive they have had to back off of that mindset.

Now they are allowing machines (or actually users) that don't have an actual account on the machine to map network drives to machine.    

The behavior you see is going to depend a lot on which version of Windows is running on the machine.