Mapped Drives not showing.

[Keith Rogers]

Hello.  May I say great product, even bought the pro version.  But alas the one thing I wanted it versatility for doesn't seem to work.  I'm running a NAS with smb drives which work fine in explorer but fail to materialize in OC.  I've tried mapping through OC still very buggy.  Is this something you're aware of.  Is windows having a moan due to OC possibly being elevated?  Dunno.  Any advice would be appreciated.  

I'm running the latest pro version on Up to date Windows 11. 

Regards

[OneCommander Support]

When OC is running elevated it uses a different user context so drive mapping is for a "different" user. OC shouldn't run elevated as Windows won't allow drag and drop, context menu items may be different, created files might get different permissions and other things may not work as expected. This is just the way Windows itself works

[Keith Rogers]

Thankyou for the reply.  Even running normally and not as Admin I get the same issue of mapped drives coming and going randomly. 

[OneCommander Support]

Regardless if you map through OC or through Explorer (or Drives>Map Network Drive (Winodows)) it is using the same Windows API to mount it underneath, and it maps direcly on Windows itself, so it the mapping, credentials, connection, lifecycle... are all managed outside of OC. 

When you say it is coming and going, I am not sure what could be going on there as I have both at work drive mapping as SMB3 to Windows Server and a Synology Rachstation and at home to low cost Synologogy Diskstation and I didn't notice issues with it. Is just the drive not showing or it is not accessible at the moment where Explorer can still access it? Try opening directly \\NAS\share and adding that to sidebar favorites, and when it disappears, check if that one still connects. When that happens it is also worth checking Windows Event Viewer for anything network related logged into it, and I can see what I can make OC log to the log files related to drives coming/going and if there is any message attached to those events