Since I have almost no rep, I can’t ask questions yet, so I’ll attempt to ask a question whilst posting an answer and hope I don’t get canned. 😉 I’m going to assume that you’ve insured that the GPO portion of this case is a non-issue, by testing this GPO against a “traditional” UNC share … Read more
On Windows 7, if UAC is enabled and you open Command Prompt with “Run as Administrator”, you won’t see the mapped drives either. On Windows 8, you’ll notice that even when UAC is disabled, you still have to “Run as Administrator”. The reason why Administrator doesn’t see the mapped drives is explained in the Technet … Read more
If you don’t have Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon configured in your GPO, it’s possible that your computer boots and you log in with cached credentials before the NIC is up and has obtained an address. Then, by the time you get around to opening Explorer, you’ve got … Read more
Given that you’re trying to search a server and not your local system, it’s probably not related to indexing as you shouldn’t have all your clients indexing a file server. What happens on the system that doesn’t work if you login as a completely different user and try to search the sever? If you get … Read more