Shared folders wont go away even MONTHS after removing them...

I have about 250 computer on my network. One user had a second hard
drive with about 40 folders that he shared. This hard drive was
removed about 3 months ago and he realized today that when he goes
into net neighborhood he sees all those shared folders that were on
the hard drive he removed months ago. Of course double clicking these
folders in network neighborhood makes windows tell him that it isnt
there. But no matter what computer we view it from (XP or 90), we see
these folders. I have searched his hard drive for these folders, not
there. I deleted all temp files, no luck. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance all!
Jazz Mann

 

Same effect happens if it's 2500 machines on the network.

No mention of the OS.

Hint, before removing a disk/folder verify shares and unshare the
appropriate folders.

Does not matter which system you view it from, they only look at what
the machine sharing is advertising.

The 'folders' won't be there, the disk was removed, I think you said
that.

You removed the drive, the 'folders' are not there.
(There's a point to repeating the absence of the actual folders)

A few months ago, I fixed a similar problem by recreating the folders
(6) , and then unshared them.

A sharename is only a pointer to a folder, remove the folder and the
pointer still exists (except Win2000 removes the share when the folder
is deleted as well.)

On a Win 2000 box, the shares are stored in the registry.
MC\HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\lanmanserver\Shares
MC\HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet\lanmanserver\Shares

Use regedit at *your own risk*, make a backup or two before deleting the
share entries.


Command line,

view shares -
net view \\<computername

delete shares
net share <sharename> /delete




Me

 

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jameson typed:

What, no error messages like "can't restore network share" on bootup?
What, no-one _noticed for three months?

Try trawling the registry for the shares - it fixed a similar problem for
me.
HTH

 

Windows XP Professional Edition : Sharing Disks /Folders
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxppntsh.htm

How can I remove the icon that appears in Windows
Explorer for shared folders or drives.
http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=23260