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I have a shared folder on one of my computers here. I can go in and out of it with Explorer just fine, but if I click on that computer in the left-hand pane in the 'select files' window that comes up, it says it can't access it. I can manually type \\dragonfly\trunk in the address bar though, and it works fine. What's up?
 
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It could be saved credentials. Run the below in command prompt, clear any saved credentials for that machine and see what happens:

Code:
rundll32 keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr
 
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is it mapped as a drive or a "network location"
 
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It could be saved credentials. Run the below in command prompt, clear any saved credentials for that machine and see what happens:

Code:
rundll32 keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr

Not sure what I'm looking at here. I removed everything anyway, but it seems to have no effect. Not sure what I did there.

is it mapped as a drive or a "network location"

I was just going through the network location "DRAGONFLY" listed under "Network" in the left-hand pane. Even my desktop shortcut just pointed to \\dragonfly\trunk. Following your train of thought, I went ahead and went to This PC > Map Network Drive, and set it up that way. Now my desktop shortcut to said folder now points to Z:\ and I seem to be able to reliably access it through Handbrake and other tools I've been using recently. Strange... but it works, so...
 
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Yeah windows has always been wonky with just simple "network locations" so drive mapping is more reliable for that.
 

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Yeah windows has always been wonky with just simple "network locations" so drive mapping is more reliable for that.
Even with it mapped as a network drive, not every application is going to see it. There have been a handful of instances where I couldn't read/write to a network drive using the file "select" dialog box.

For example, LiLi USB Creator won't read ISOs off a network drive and won't even show network drives, even if they're mapped. However, typing in the full share name seems to work even if you don't see it as the OP described.
 
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Not sure what I'm looking at here. I removed everything anyway, but it seems to have no effect. Not sure what I did there.

This is just cached credentials for your machine. Every time you get that prompt in Windows for credentials and you check the "save my credentials" box, this is where is stores them.

I was just going through the network location "DRAGONFLY" listed under "Network" in the left-hand pane. Even my desktop shortcut just pointed to \\dragonfly\trunk. Following your train of thought, I went ahead and went to This PC > Map Network Drive, and set it up that way. Now my desktop shortcut to said folder now points to Z:\ and I seem to be able to reliably access it through Handbrake and other tools I've been using recently. Strange... but it works, so...

It's probably using the machine account through the network browser on the left (likely just a service running under the NETWORK SERVICE account), where as when you type the path it will use your user credentials. Windows was largely designed around the existence of a Domain and Domain Controller, the absence of one yields some strange behaviours.
 
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