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ST3 Unable to see any network drives

#1

I’ve used ST for years without issue, but recently started a new job, and ST is unable to see or interact with any of the network drives.

Using Windows 10 Pro 64bit, ST3.1.1

I have locally one drive, C, obviously. ST can interact with this without issue.

Over the 4 network drives that I have (U, X, Y, Z), Sublime just can’t see them. If I go to open or save a file, it only lists C. If I navigate to a file i want to open using explorer, and open it with ST, it just opens a blank document.

This is the only software that seems to have this issue - Office, Paint.Net, VS2017, PHPStorm, PyCharm, FileZilla, everything else I’ve ever tried to use here has been fine, just not ST.

Just performed another test… It seems I can access shared folders, if I actually type in \\[server] (It then shows all of the folders that have been specifically shared on that server), but it doesn’t work if I go \\[server]\C$, which obviously does work in explorer.

Anyone got any ideas? This makes life very difficult as I keep having to move things to my local machine to open them, and save them locally before then copying them across to the network.

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#2

as I test, I just tried dragging a file from an Explorer window at \\server\c$\tmp into ST and it opened fine.
Then I used the File -> Open dialog and opened a different file from that folder, and it also opened fine…

Then I did a net use x: \\server\c$\tmp and tried the same thing but from the X drive, and it all still worked fine.
So not sure why it doesn’t work for you. Any errors in the ST console (View menu -> Show Console) about unable to open file or anything?

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#3

As it doesn’t even display the drives when using the file->open command, I can’t get it to generate an error there.

But if I try to open a network file by navigating to it and right click -> open with sublime text (or just double clicking on a .txt file), it has the helpful error “Unable to open file /U/fww/local_narrator.bat”

It is as if the network drives are created in such a way that ST just can’t see that they’re there…

Either that or ST is running as a different user / with different privileges to the user account I’m logged on with, it’s very odd.

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#4

it does indeed look like that, otherwise the drives would appear in the standard File - Open dialog.

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#5

I’ve tried running it as administrator, in the hope it would pick up my domain privileges, but that didn’t work either :frowning:

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#6

HAHA!

I’ve solved it - It was always running as administrator (set in the shortcut).

Now I’ve removed that, it’s running as me, and it has access to all of the things it should!

Thanks :slight_smile:

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