Unable to See or Access Mapped Path During Installation
Unable to See or Access Mapped Path During Installation
Summary
When accessing a network location using a mapped path, the location may not show up during installation
Symptoms
When accessing a network location using a mapped path, the location may not show up during installation. This is applicable to newer OSes starting from Vista to later versions of Windows that contain the UAC technology.
Cause
This behavior essentially occurs due to how UAC handles mapped network drives. In order to access a mapped location from an elevated process, the drives should also be mapped in the context of the elevated login. For further details regarding this, please refer to the Additional Information section of this article.
Resolution
In order to resolve this issue on the particular machine that is having trouble accessing the mapped location during install, please do the following steps:
Open the Registry Editor (Start Menu, search for Regedit).
Navigate to the following node: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System
Create a new DWORD value called EnableLinkedConnections with the value of 1.
Restart your machine.
Start an Administrative Command Prompt and create the mapped drive using the net use command. For instance, "net use M: \\server\path".
Additional Information
For more information regarding this, please refer to the following blog article:
