Microsoft KB Archive/273151

= XADM: Possible Drive Contention Between Exchange IFS Drive and Network Mapped Drive =

Article ID: 273151

Article Last Modified on 2/26/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q273151





SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to access the Exchange Information File System (IFS) drive, you are unable to because the drive letter is in use by a network mapped drive. The following event is reported in the application event log:

Event ID: 1

Source: ExWin32

Type: Error

Description: The Exchange IFS failed to map drive. Please free drive  to use Exchange IFS.

Alternatively, you may not be able to use a network mapped drive because it is in use by the Exchange IFS. You may receive an error message similar to the following during startup:

An error occurred while reconnecting  to.

Microsoft Windows Network: The local device name is already in use.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because the Exchange IFS drive does not dynamically map. It gets mapped statically according to a registry value.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, change the mapping of the conflicting network drive.

Additional query words: exch2kp2w

Keywords: kberrmsg kbnofix kbprb KB273151

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