Network File Transfers – Fix for Windows Security prompt “These files might be harmful to your computer” June 25, 2010
Posted by Aurelius in Uncategorized.3 comments
This is a quick and easy fix for an error that appears every time you try and copy/move files within a Network Share (or from your desktop to a network).
This applies to you if you’re in a Network Environment (I.e.: You have a server you try and copy files from/to). You also must have permissions to modify your Internet Explorer settings. If you don’t have such permissions, you need to contact your Network Admin.
This is a screenshot of the error:
TO FIX THIS: You must add your Server’s name or IP address in IE settings. To do this:
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Click on or search for and find “Internet Options”
3. Click the Security Tab
4. Click Local intranet
5. Click the “Sites” button right below and to the right.
6. Click “Advanced” in the menu that appears
7. You will get a new menu that says, “Add this website to the zone:”
What you want to do is type in the server name and\or IP address of whatever server you want to add. If you aren’t sure, look at the network share under “Computer” (from the desktop). If you have a network share drive, it should list the IP address or server name after a double backslash, for example:
\\192.168.1.1
\\server-name\share
Type that name in the box, click “Add”
8. When you are done, just click “Close” and/or “OK” out of everything. If it doesn’t work right away, I suggest rebooting.
NOTE: Make sure you only add the names/IP Addresses of servers you trust! I bear no responsibility if you “trust” a site or server that is questionable.
SBS 2003 http://server/connectcomputer page cannot be found February 9, 2009
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This is probably a rather obscure problem, but I wantd to post it in case anyone else runs into this issue.
I am adding a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise system to my SBS 2003 domain. This server was previously on another network, hence a different domain.
I went through the process of adding the server. On SBS, did “Add Server Computer”, and then I went to the new server, http://<myserver>/ConnectComputer. Unfortunately, it said “Page Cannot Be Found.”
I went to a command prompt and pinged <myserver>. Lo and behold, it was pinging itself…it appended <myserver>.<olddomain>.local.
So, what I did was, go to IE and type in http://<myserver>.<mydomain>.local/ConnectComputer and everything worked great.
Hope this helps somebody out there. Like I said, somewhat obscure, but it could happen to someone else.
