Friday, 15. February 2013
Fixing Non-persistent Mapped Network Drives with UAC (Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)02/15/2013 04:05 PM
If you map local drives so you can have a uniform build environment (e.g., mapping drive S: as your source code drive), you'll get bitten by this if you switch to Windows 8 because of UAC. Apparently, the network drive disappears if you run a build script that runs other executables. You have to add the EnableLinkedConnections setting in the registry and reboot to go back to XP's old behavior:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624?wa=wsignin1.0
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